After a traditional healer\u2019s promises did not come to fruition, a Germiston woman decided to take drastic steps.<\/p>\n
She arranged for the traditional healer to be abducted.<\/p>
But her plans went horribly wrong and the 51-year-old woman and her 21-year-old grandson were arrested and her son (age unknown) was allegedly shot and killed by a neighbour.<\/p>\n
The arrests by the Germiston SAPS took place at 8.30am, last Saturday.<\/p>
It is alleged that the traditional healer was abducted in Rabie Ridge Extension One, Tembisa, last Friday, after he failed to make the woman suspect\u2019s dream of becoming a millionaire come true.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is alleged that he told the woman that, if she gave him R200 000, she would, in return, receive R10-million,\u201d said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Germiston police cluster.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe promises never came to pass so she decided to abduct the traditional healer, which, in the end, landed her in police custody.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is further alleged that the woman went to her cousin\u2019s home in Rabie Ridge, where she met with the traditional healer and he was abducted by people she had hired.<\/p>\n
The Germiston SAPS received information regarding the whereabouts of the victim, last Saturday, and went to the scene in Dukathole Extension Nine.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpon their arrival the suspects did not want to let them into the house, but eventually opened the door.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the suspects were busy talking to the police, the officers heard shots being fired outside and they rushed to see what was happening,\u201d said Phooko.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police found a neighbour, who said he had witnessed two men pushing someone down the stairs and then found the man tied up with ropes and wire lying on a chair in his yard.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe alleged he had fired two shots at the suspects, thinking they wanted to steal his taxi.\u201d<\/p>\n
The police asked the victim to identify himself and he confirmed that he was the traditional healer who had been abducted in Tembisa.<\/p>\n
The SAPS members also found a man lying on his back in a pool of blood, with two gunshot wounds to his upper body.<\/p>\n
His family rushed him to Tambo Memorial Hospital, in Boksburg, where he was certified dead.<\/p>\n
The SAPS arrested the 51-year-old woman and her 21-year-old grandson on charges of kidnapping, and they were detained at the Germiston Police Station pending their appearance in the Tembisa Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old neighbour was also arrested at a later stage, for shooting the woman\u2019s son, who the neighbour had witnessed pushing the victim down the stairs.<\/p>\n
He is due to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon on a charge of murder.<\/p>\n
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