{"id":116733,"date":"2016-03-28T07:28:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T05:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=116733"},"modified":"2016-04-01T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T08:14:09","slug":"pensioners-ears-nose-cut-off-eye-cut-out-in-brutal-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/03\/28\/pensioners-ears-nose-cut-off-eye-cut-out-in-brutal-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioner\u2019s ears, nose cut off in brutal murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Delville family is reeling after the brutal murder of a family member on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-woman was stabbed in the stomach and neck and had both her ears and her nose cut off.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Capt Geroge Raphulu, head of communications for the Germiston SAPS, said: \u201cThe woman\u2019s granddaughter and grandson-in-law left the house at about 8am to go to work and when the grandson-in-law returned at about 3pm they found her dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is suspected that the man who they had employed to do work in their home and garden is the murderer as he has subsequently disappeared.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>As the woman was found half naked the police are also investigating the possibility of her being raped.<\/p>\n<p>Raphulu said that it appears nothing had been taken from the house and the motive for the murder was unknown.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made as yet and police continue with their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/116243\/man-arrested-for-kidnapping-and-rape\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested for the alleged kidnapping and rape of a young woman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/116216\/police-nab-man-after-restaurant-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police nab man after restaurant shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='5c2d10860c580ede7d1ae437af8b0e44'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delville woman was murdered on Thursday in her home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":116734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,508,2],"tags":[989,1324,979,969,1032,2734,1563,999,998],"class_list":["post-116733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-choice","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-dinwiddie","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-saps","tag-melissa-hart","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","dinwiddie","germiston","germiston city news","germiston saps","melissa hart","murder","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}