{"id":14948,"date":"2013-08-20T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/14948\/three-arrested-for-assault-gbhorpolice-arrest-men-for-assault-gbh\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T08:38:19","slug":"three-arrested-for-assault-gbhorpolice-arrest-men-for-assault-gbh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/08\/20\/three-arrested-for-assault-gbhorpolice-arrest-men-for-assault-gbh\/","title":{"rendered":"Three arrested for assault GBH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose SAPS recently arrested three men for different incidents of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm (GBH).<\/p>\n<p>Two men, aged 24 and 43, were arrested in the Makause informal settlement, and another, aged 29, was nabbed in the Marathon informal settlement.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In the first assault it is alleged that the man asked his girlfriend for R5 and when she said she didn&#8217;t have any money he became angry and assaulted her using a hammer.<\/p>\n<p>In the second case, a man assaulted his neighbour after the neighbour closed his tuckshop early.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The suspect wanted to buy something from the tuckshop and when he found it closed he started hitting the victim with bricks and a knobkerrie,&#8221; said Const Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The man was severely injured on his upper body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the Marathon informal settlement assault, the victim alleged that his brother accused him of stealing his money and then started assaulting him.<\/p>\n<p>He also stabbed him, using a sharp object.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are appealing to our community not to take the law into their own hands and to rather seek help if they need it,&#8221; said Maome.<\/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='ca2269a193ca0bd45e48f334b39d3b2e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police have arrested three men for assault GBH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":21287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1321,989,979,1514,1288,1515,1384,999,1000,997,998],"class_list":["post-14948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-assault-gbh","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-makause-informa","tag-makause-informal-settlement","tag-maratho","tag-marathon-informal-settlement","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["assault GBH","crime","germiston","makause informa","makause informal settlement","maratho","marathon informal settlement","police","primrose","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14948","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}