N N was a few minutes early for work and before ringing the bell took a moment to check her phone. A man approached and said he needed help then told her there was no escape and nocked her on the head with a small black bag that contained a heavy object like a brick. She dropped her cell phone and he grabbed it and ran. She shouted and ran after him. I heard it and saw the tall thin black man with short black hair running very fast down Wrensch Road wearing a red jacket and dark trousers. I chased in my car, saw people come out who gave her attention and confirmed he had gone down the subway. I went via Station Road to Lower Wrensch to see if I could track him in the direction he was going and called OBSID on my phone. I encountered an OBSID van who seemed to know about it already and they thought he had gone towards Station Road. I checked the subway and was told he had left his red jacket and the bag with the heavy object in the subway. I drove down Strubens and back onto Liesbeek thinking I may track him and as I came to the N2 bridge caught sight of him crossing from the weir over the mound or raised walkway berm and down the other side towards Wild Fig and N2. He was now in a white short sleeve golf shirt with soft collar and still with dark long pants. He was clearly the same person. Tall and moving with speed and grace yet cautious as he ducked not to be too visible. I turned onto the onramp towards N2 outbound then lost him as he was too close to the side or behind the trees or back to the river? I eventually got back to Little Mowbray but could not see him again. I updated my report to OBSID After taking N N to the doctor and chemist (she had a bad knock on the head), we came back via Liesbeek Parkway again and we saw police vans next to the river. We stopped and found they had picked up about nine young men who were being taken back to Woodstock PS. They said they also saw the man we were chasing and he disappeared ‘through the river’. We had a look at them but did not see the one responsible for the specific mugging. We went to Woodstock to lay a charge and see if they had any photos to identify but after a long time of waiting and writing the report were requested to come back again on Wednesday. It is clear that the fast getaway was achieved down Lower Wrensch and past the gap between the pool and houses, across Liesbeek Parkway, across the weir over the river and behind the ‘berm’ into the sluth that reaches the river under the bridge. There are lots of hideouts and places to drop things to come back and fetch later. We need to get this gap next to the pool closed with a fence and have some camera on the subway and Strubens Road!
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