Drie van Blanke Gesin Vermoor – Vier Swartes Aangekeer
RICHMOND, NATAL
– Pas die dag nadat die oudste seun in die gesin aangebied het om vir
die jarelange vertroueling-arbeider se verdere studies te betaal, word
die res van die huisgesin deur dieselfde swarte en sy bende barbare,
wreed vermoor.
“Hoe kan jy die mense vermoor wat jy
jarelank voor werk en jou vertrou? het Stefan Schutte in die Natalse
Hooggeregshof gesê. “Dit is ‘n malligheid. Mens kan dit nie beskryf
nie!” het Schutte gesê.
Een van die vier jong swart mans wat as
verdagtes in die wrede moord op drie lede van die Schutte-gesin het
vermoedelik vir die Schuttes op hul plaas gewerk. Een van die seuns van
die gesin – Stefan Schutte wat ‘n sakeman in Pietermaritzburg is, het
gesê dat hy met ‘n skok besef, nadat hy op die verminkte liggaam van sy
pa, Ekard Schutte (77), van sy ma Elizabeth (66), en van sy broer Lutz
(33) afgekom het, dat een van die vier swartes wat ge-arresteer is
dieselfde oggend nog in sy tuin gewerk het.
Stefan het die verminkte lyke van sy
ouers en broer ontdek met sy aankoms Sondag-oggend vir die herdenking
van hulle pa se 77ste verjaardag. Na ‘n gesamentlike soek-operasie deur
die SAPD, die misdaad-intelligensie-eenheid, die K9-eenheid, die Valke
en dieMagma Sekerheidsdienste, is die vier swartes Maandagoggend 3 Mei
vasgetrek en ge-arresteer. Die vier swartes wissel tussen 19 en 20 jaar
in ouderdom.
Die SAPD het beslag gelê op eiendom wat
aan die Schuttes behoort wat hul vuurwapens insluit (9mm pistool en twee
gewere met ammunisie), luidsprekers en “boom-boxes” waarmee die mans in
hul besit betrap is. Die voertuig waarmee die swartes op vlug geslaan
het was ook opgespoor – verlate en uitgebrand.
Kort voor Ekard Schutte vermoor is, is
hy deur drie swartmans genader met die voorwendsel dat hulle hout wil
koop. Toe die vier mans by die plaas aangekom het, het hulle Ekard met
messe doodgesteek. Daarna is hulle die woonhuis in, ‘n ete voorberei en
genuttig, die items wat hul wou steel bymekaar gesit en in kartondose
gepak. Intussen was Lutz en sy ma op pad terug van die lughawe af plaas
toe nadat Lutz vanaf Kaapstad terug gevlieg het na ‘n besoek aan
Duitsland, en op pad terug, ook by vriende en familie in Kaapstad
gekuier het.
Stefan het gesê dat sy ma en Lutz op die
swartes ingestap het waar hulle in die kombuis besig was om te eet.
“Ons is sterk daarvan oortuig dat ma en seun verwoed teruggeveg het voor
hul as gevolg van hul beserings beswyk het,” het ‘n ingeligde bron na
aan die gesin gesê.
Die moordenaars het gepoog om alle
bewyse te vernietig deur die moordtoneel aan die brand te steek. Hulle
het brandstof in die huis uitgegooi asook oor die ma en seun en daarna
die plek aan die brand gesteek. Hulle het daarna met Elizabeth se kar
gevlug. ‘n Segspersoon, karen Lowe het aan nuusmedia gesê dat die
familie “erg getraumatiseerd is.”
Die vier verdagtes het die afgelope week in die hof verskyn op verskeie aanklagte.
One of the four young black male
suspects in the cruel triple-murder of three members of the Schutte
family actually used to work on their farm in KZN. One of the surviving
sons, Stefan Schutte – a businessman in Pietermaritzburg — said he
realized with a shock after he discovered the mutilated bodies of his
dad Ekard Schutte 77, his mom Elizabeth 66, and his 33-year-old brother
Lutz, that one of the four arrested men had actually ‘still been working
in his garden’ that morning.
Stefan discovered the mutilated bodies
of his brother and parents when he arrived as planned on Sunday-morning
for his father’s 77th birthday celebration.
On Monday-morning March 3 2014 the SAPS
arrested four black males, aged 19 and 20, during a joint search
operation by the Richmond police, their crime-intelligence unit, the
K9-unit, the Falcons and the Magma Security and Investigations company.
SAPS confiscated items belonging to the
Schutte couple including their firearms, (a 9mm pistol and two rifles
with ammo), loud-speakers and boom-boxes with the men. The vehicle in
which the four men had fled, was found abandoned and torched.
Shortly before dad Ekard Schutte was
murdered, three men who had previously worked for him, approached the
German farmer under the pretence that they wanted to buy wood. When the
four men arrived at the farm they stabbed Ekard to death. Then the men
went inside the homestead, made themselves a meal, and took the items
they wanted to, packing the loot into boxes.
At that stage, mother Elizabeth and son
Lutz were enroute from the airport to the Richmond smallholding. Lutz
had arrived from Germany earlier in the week and had first visited with
friends and family in Cape Town.
Stefan said that his mother and Lutz had walked in on the killers, who were sitting in the kitchen eating a leasurely meal.
Stefan said that his mother and Lutz had walked in on the killers, who were sitting in the kitchen eating a leasurely meal.
“We have strong suspicions,’ said ‘a
well-informed source’, ‘that the mother and son fought back fiercely
before they died of their injuries.’ The killers tried to clean the
crime scene by torching it; they poured petrol inside the homestead and
across the murdered mother and son and set them alight.’ Then they fled
in Elizabeth’s vehicle. Spokeswoman Karen Lowe told the news media that
the family ‘is badly traumatized’.
The four suspects are expected to appear in the Richmond magistrate’s court later this week.
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