Gunmen executed a daring daylight robbery on a South Ruimveldt pensioner and escaped with over $300,000 cash.
Speaking with this newspaper from her 31 Cauli-flower Street, South Ruim-veldt home last evening, the woman’s daughter Jacqueline Johnson said her mother Jean Johnson was alone in the home at around 10 when the men struck.
Jacqueline said she was at work when her mother called but the woman was so traumatised she was incoherent. She said one of the construction workers currently repairing their fence then told her that she should come home because something had happened.
Jacqueline said when she reached home the workmen were sitting on the stairway. She said her mother told her she had been mopping the kitchen when someone grabbed her by the neck and forced her into a bedroom.
The woman said one of the men probably went over to her room as her mother said she heard one of them saying, “Come along we find what we came for.” Jacqueline said all her documents were strewn across the floor and the men had removed the money from her wardrobe. The woman said after the attack her mother said she saw three men running through the street but she later learnt that the gunmen had escaped in a waiting car which sped off.
Jacqueline said one of the construction workers told her that the men were armed and had instructed them to be quiet. She said too “One of them said they told him to lie down and then told him afterwards to sit down while the other two workers were told to continue doing their work.” Despite this, the woman said she was surprised that no one tried to raise an alarm.
Jacqueline said her mother had suffered scratches to her face and her spectacles had been damaged in the attack.
Police are investigating the matter.
