The Delft Community Policing Forum (CPF) has warned people about helping others on one of the most notorious roads in the city following the fatal stabbing of a good Samaritan earlier this week.
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This comes after 36-year-old Shadley Abrahams was killed while trying to assist a motorist with a flat tyre on the R300 on Sunday.
The Eindhoven resident was reported missing on Tuesday before his body was found at the Salt River mortuary. It is believed that he had been found kilometres away in Philippi East.
‘He left home when I was asleep around 8pm on Sunday evening,’ his fiancée, Melony Abrahams, told IOL. ‘I didn’t know where he went until my daughter informed me on Monday morning that he went to help people on the R300 who had a burst tyre. What was strange was that he didn’t come home because he wouldn’t sleep out and his cellphone was off.’
Concerned about her fiancée, the woman went to her neighbours to find out whether they had seen him.
‘They said they saw him crossing the R300 to the Mitchells Plain direction side, and then while he was helping, three suspected robbers approached them and there was an argument.’
‘The neighbours said they heard bottles breaking and then they saw my fiancé pushed into the car and the people he helped drove off with him, they couldn’t get the number of the car because it was load shedding and they couldn’t cross the R300 to the Mitchells Plain direction; it’s dangerous there.’
‘I did, however, go to where he was last seen and found a bloodied bottle. I think it was used to stab him.’
‘His body was at Salt River morgue, we were told he was found near Philippi East, also on the R300.’
Meanwhile, speaking to IOL, Delft CPF spokesperson, Charles George described the R300 as a ticking time bomb.
‘Even though there are cameras and highway patrol and the Neighbourhood Watch that patrols, you can’t ask people to stop there, pick up anyone, or help anyone because it is crazy. The other problem is that long distance operators pick up passengers and most of them get robbed.’
‘The R300 is dangerous and the solution is for the City to build an interchange in Delft opposite the mall, which was on the cards. We want people to wait for their transport in a safe place.’
‘The other issue is the people who cross the R300 to either Wesbank or Delft; at least once a month we see a body of a pedestrian being knocked over. The fencing should maybe be electrified because currently it’s being fixed every month. Cars are also stoned and there are many robbery incidents reported.’
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