Update
The man who allegedly viciously stabbed a Plettenberg Bay local woman at an ATM in the town’s main street and in the process cut off his own finger, was arrested on Tuesday, August 15.
Police spokesman Captain Marlene Pieterse said that the 43-year-old suspect was arrested at 04:00 at his home in Kiepersol Street in New Horizons by police detective Warrant Officer John Nomdoe.
“The suspect was positively linked to the incident with fingerprints and DNA and was thereafter arrested by Nomdoe,” said Pieterse.
He was set to appear in the Plettenberg Bay Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, August 16, but had not done so before going to print.
His arrest followed an attack on July 28. The victim, a local woman, had just withdrawn money from an ATM at Melville’s Corner at about 06:00 when the man overpowered and stabbed her multiple times on the right side of her body.
He fled without the cash as she had hidden it in her brassiere, but not before accidentally cutting off his own finger in the attack.
The woman was seriously injured and rushed to a local hospital by security officers. She survived the attack.
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ARTICLE: YOLANDE STANDER
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