Over the last three years the SAPS reported between seven and eight
thousand police firearms lost, stolen, or otherwise unaccounted for. A large
quantity of the missing firearms most certainly have ended up in the hands of
criminals and been used in the commission of crime.
Just recently a police officer’s gun was the weapon used in the murder of a Rustenburg woman, her two sons, and two relatives.
Two men arrested for the multiple murders have admitted stealing the police officer’s gun when they broke into his house. But, and it’s a big but, the police officer in his statement back then had declared that the robbers took the firearm off his person.
Now that’s not the kind of contradiction in statements that you can put down to hazy memory on either side. Either the damn cop was mugged or he wasn’t. He would know which it was; and either the damn thugs mugged him or broke into his house. They would know which it was.
Both stories stink to high heaven.
Just recently a police officer’s gun was the weapon used in the murder of a Rustenburg woman, her two sons, and two relatives.
Two men arrested for the multiple murders have admitted stealing the police officer’s gun when they broke into his house. But, and it’s a big but, the police officer in his statement back then had declared that the robbers took the firearm off his person.
Now that’s not the kind of contradiction in statements that you can put down to hazy memory on either side. Either the damn cop was mugged or he wasn’t. He would know which it was; and either the damn thugs mugged him or broke into his house. They would know which it was.
Both stories stink to high heaven.
