Update

PLETTENBERG BAY NEWS - The timeline of the Luck couple's double murder tragedy started soon after 14:20, when Jane's daughter, Charlotte, last spoke to her mother.

Charlotte became anxious when Jane did not collect her grandson from soccer as agreed and tried to contact her mother, but without success.

Jane's neighbour, Jason Schumann, was asked to check in on Jane and Jack when he arrived home from work in Plett. When Schumann walked around the house and saw that the Lucks' Mercedes was not on the property, he thought they had left to fetch their grandson.

It was only later, when the police arrived on the scene, that the bloody tragedy was uncovered.

Vigilant

A motion-sensoring camera had filmed the alleged perpetrator leaving the property in the Lucks' Mercedes-Benz mid-afternoon. While his face was not visible, his bloodied arm was.

At 17:45, a vigilant resident spotted a man driving recklessly and the vehicle was subsequently flagged on a local security WhatsApp group.

In a statement on Thursday 26 March, Southern Cape police spokesperson Warrant Officer Chris Spies said preliminary reports indicated that a Mercedes-Benz motor vehicle had been captured by a licence plate recognition camera travelling at high speed along the R339 in the direction of Uniondale at about 18:50.

A co-ordinated effort between police and community safety structures led to the pursuit of the identified vehicle, he said. The vehicle later overturned near Uniondale, where the driver fled the scene on foot but was soon apprehended.

In the meantime, police members had responded to the registered address linked to the vehicle, where they discovered the bodies of the Lucks.

"Both victims had sustained multiple injuries," said Spies.

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