Gonubie man’s jog ends in hospital

Kent Venish, brother of well-known policeman Dean Venish, was mugged and stabbed yesterday morning while jogging near Gonubie High School.

Venish, 54, was stabbed twice in the arm and once in the chest by a male mugger while running at 6am.

The assailant, wearing a white hoodie and jeans, stole his cell phone and a blue hydration bag.

Luckily for the car salesman, a bystander who knows him helped him.

“He struggled to run after he was mugged. A man who works in the area him saw him and called an ambulance,” said his wife, Sandra Venish.

Venish was taken to the Life Hospital in Beacon Bay and later transferred to Life St Dominic’s Hospital in Southernwood.

Sandra said Venish was in a stable condition after blood was drained from the wound close to his lung.

Dean said that his brother told him that he had either broken or badly hurt the left arm of his attacker.

The attack was reported to the Gonubie Police station, Dean added.

The station commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Tolisile Mdyogolo, said this was the first case of a jogger being attacked since 2015.

“We tell people that they should not jog or walk with their headsets on.

“We have workshops where we educate people about these incidents,” said Mdyogolo. — mandilakhek@dispatch.co.za