Dear Lytton and OBSNW, I just read about the gun point in Wesley from last night and it seems these were the same guys who put us at gun point at #3 Lytton on Friday early morning.
The description from last night was two man in a green Toyota lingering and waiting for opportunity. One man, the gun man, stepped out of the car and put the couple on gun point. This pattern sound extremely similar to our case: one gun man (smallish, slim coloured with hoody ~ 170 cm), the other guy in the background. I didn't see the green toyota corrola, but this is what Lorraine saw: "There was an old square shaped dark greeny colour Toyota Corolla parked in Scott Road just outside number 53 on the left hand side going up but parked rather skew in the road with a driver in it. It started up the engine and the exhaust was very noisy. Then I saw the white (now I know its yours) Renault come round the corner rather fast and wondered what was happening as whoever was driving your car was clearly following the Toyota. They both went around the top corner into the Main Rd towards Mowbray and I could hear the noise of the Toyota for a long while so I assume that they must have driven onto the N2." Another email (I can't find at the moment) indicated that the same guys may have been responsible for a gun point in Wesley before. They seem to be very opportunistic and I am quite sure that I wasn't followed, but instead they lurked in front of 53 Scott waiting for their opportunity (perhaps they new my car and expected me to come home that night). Anyway, as hectic as they are they seem to take a high risk using the same car and following the same pattern. In the end they got my hard-to-sell car, a cheap cell and 140 ZAR. They could have entered the gate, house, raided or searched us, but it seems more like an opportunistic hit and run (we were very lucky in that). If they try again using the same car, it is likely to get them before anything happens, as long as everyone would be alert of the green corolla lurking. I am not sure how to best communicate this to OBSID and the police, although I presume they already know what they are looking for. Please advice. Stay safe and thanks again for the support. Cheers, Henning P.S. Tahirih could you please add me back to the Whats app group - thanks :). -- Dr Henning Winker Lead Scientist: Statistical Ecology South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) Centre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation (SEEC) Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa +27 21 799 8809 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room TEL: 021-447-1066 or 072-063-1653 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EMERGENCIES: 10111 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ONW email: [email protected] WEB: www.obswatch.org.za FACEBOOK: facebook.com/obswatch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Useful Obs Numbers: obs.org.za/obsdir You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/obsnw?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood Watch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
