THE tranquil atmosphere of Hudson Street, Eden Park, suddenly became very noisy with the hovering of a helicopter and a sudden arrival of police vehicles at 12 midnight on January 14.
A quantum minibus of a company was found parked behind a house where a pensioner and her son stays.
A lady, known to the pensioner, had arrived earlier with her boyfriend and asked permission to park their company’s vehicle on the property.
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“I know the woman very well because she once stayed with me.
“She arrived here at about 11pm with a man she said was her boyfriend and said they had no space for the minibus where they stayed and asked if they could please park the vehicle for the night only,” said the pensioner who can not be named.
Standing in her kitchen, still half asleep, she agreed and the couple left with her not knowing how they left because she never heard a car leaving.
“After just half an hour or 45 minutes, I suddenly heard a noise of a helicopter hovering too close to my house.
“Then all hell broke loose.
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“Police vehicles surrounded my house and knocking everywhere on doors and windows and shouting to open the doors.
“My blood pressure went sky high, my head started to pain and my knees went weak.
“I opened the door and armed police rushed into my house asking for the driver of the parked minibus and the owner of the house,” said the emotional pensioner.
She further said that after some interrogation, the police drove with her to a house in Thokoza where a house was searched and the owner also loaded into a vehicle.
“They said they wanted the goods that were loaded in the minibus when the driver was allegedly shot and hijacked.
“I was told that the vehicle was loaded with rice, sugar and maize-meal which was still missing.
“They had searched my entire house for the missing goods when we returned from Thokoza,” she said.
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The traumatised pensioner said at about 5am the next morning, the hijacked minibus was loaded onto a truck and the police promised to come back for her to be locked up.
The woman and her boyfriend never came the following day or days after.
She is still waiting for their return.
The pensioner’s property has no fence around it because thieves stole her steal fence making it easy to just drive into the property.
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