A Bellville lawyer who was kidnapped on Friday has been reunited with his family after the “strange circumstances surrounding this incident” resulted in a police manhunt.
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According to police spokesperson, Joseph Swartbooi, the wife of the local lawyer reported her husband missing on Friday after he never returned home after work.
Following consultation with the lawyer’s business partner and secretary, Swartbooi said police visited the lawyer’s office.
“Bellville detectives were operationalised as a result of the strange circumstances surrounding this incident,” said Swartbooi.
“After consultation with the missing person’s business partner and secretary, they visited the offices and found that the office was in many ways disturbed and certain items were also missing.”
“They found a file on the desk which would be of vital importance in their investigation as it gave direct links to pursue.”
“The investigating team immediately launched a manhunt in a bid to locate the missing person.”
“They proceeded to the address of a female in Yale Road in Belhar who visited the practice the previous day.”
“The husband of the female could not give an account of the whereabouts of his wife.”
“Witnesses who were questioned in the vicinity, placed the female on the crime scene. They confirmed that she was driving a white motor vehicle, believed to be the victim’s motor vehicle, with an unknown man and two occupants.”
“Following the leads in the file found on the desk in the office, their sights were now set on another address mentioned in Klawer.”
Swartbooi explained that the information was shared with SAPS officers in the West Coast.
“Klawer police spotted the vehicle at an address in their policing precinct and entered the house where they rescued the missing person who was traumatised.”
“They then arrested and detained a male and two females on a charge of kidnapping.”
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