{"id":70344,"date":"2017-08-04T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/70344\/invisible-no-youre-not-go-straight-to-jail-2\/"},"modified":"2017-08-07T08:49:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T06:49:55","slug":"invisible-no-youre-not-go-straight-to-jail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/04\/invisible-no-youre-not-go-straight-to-jail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInvisible!\u201d &#8211; No you&#8217;re not, go straight to jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Ms Nortier realized that she wasn\u2019t imagining the sound of tekkies squeaking on the tile floor outside her bedroom, she shouted at a figure navigating his way through their hallway with a cell phone light: \u201cHey, come here, where are you going!?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nortier immediately jumped out of bed and confronted the unknown man in the lounge, baseball bat in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nortier succeeded in overpowering the man who attempted to stab him with a screw driver a couple of times.<\/p>\n<p>The intruder\u2019s hands were bound behind his back with washing line and the SAPS was called.<\/p>\n<p>When police searched the suspect they discovered the crystals and fluid filled bottle tied around the suspect\u2019s waist.<\/p>\n<p>A bangle with visually striking beads were also found around one of his arms, and later one was also discovered on the Nortier couple\u2019s bed.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Nortier\u2019s handbag and Mr Nortier\u2019s wedding band was taken from the nightstands next to where they were sleeping.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70341\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70341\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/08\/17aa18-3_46889-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/08\/17aa18-3_46889-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/08\/17aa18-3_46889-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/08\/17aa18-3_46889-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/08\/17aa18-3_46889.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ms Hilda Nortier with her cat Latina and children Bollie (4), Johan (10) and Anieka (14).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The couple believe that the intruder, identified on court records as A. Bakari, truly believed he was invisible because when police officers searched him, he aggressively said: \u201cInvisible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this he also only said \u201cdon\u2019t care,\u201d when officers proceeded to arrest him.<\/p>\n<p>Bakari appeared in court hours after his arrest on a charge of housebreaking.<\/p>\n<p>The Nortier couple\u2019s children, Anieka (14), Johan (10) and Bollie (4) was present in the house and woke from the \u201cWWE wrestling match,\u201d between their father and Bakari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man, found with crystals and a bottle filled with an unknown fluid tied around his waist, casually stalked around the house of Johan and Hilda Nortier during a daring break-in in which he believed himself to be invisible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":70346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tobie van den Bergh","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}