In the News Today: The Hawks have confirmed that a ransom demand has been made for a woman kidnapped on her way to a Port St Johns resort on Friday.
Police and private investigators are working around the clock to rescue a woman who was kidnapped while travelling on the N2 from East London to Umngazi Resort in Port St Johns on the Wild Coast on Friday afternoon.
The 39-year-old Alize van der Merwe is said to have flown to East London from Cape Town on Friday morning, 20 September. Her rental vehicle – a white Toyota Fortuner – was found abandoned in the evening between Dumasi and the popular Port St Johns resort.
N2 kidnapping: Victim’s belongings, cellphone found
Antoinette Coetser, a specialist investigator in serious violent and economic crimes at top sleuth Mike Bolhuis’ Spesialised Security Services (SSS), told The Citizen on…continue reading HERE.
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