WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2008-01-10 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Good. Its only one of many thousands… but each murder that reaches the rest of the world is good. Jan]
The murder of a Pretoria man in front of his family during a robbery at their home on Saturday night has attracted international attention with foreign media also carrying the story.
Under the headline: Sisters see their father shot dead by drug-crazed robbers for £80 (about R1 084) and a laptop, the English newspaper, The Daily Mail, on Tuesday reported on the murder of Fred Picton-Turbervill, 46.
On Tuesday night the BBC’s Wales newsdesk called the Pretoria News to find out more about crime in the capital.
Picton-Turbervill, a father of six, is a descendant of one of Wales’s oldest families and worked in the UK.
| ‘I don’t know if I can protect my children in South Africa’ |
He and his South African wife Ursula ran a successful furniture company in Burnley called D’Urberville Designs but moved to South Africa for “a better quality of life.” Here they set up a furniture business called Creative and bought a house in Waterkloof Ridge.
After Saturday’s attack which was witnessed by the couple’s four children, Samantha, ten, Bryony, nine, Natasha, six and Gregory, three, Ursula said the children could never go back there.
She would sell the house and probably return to Britain. “I don’t know if I can protect my children in South Africa,” she said.
Ursula’s friend Kim Tucker, to whom she turned to for help, said she was keeping strong “for the children’s sake”.
She said Ursula wanted to thank those who had helped on the night of the crime and said she welcomed the media attention as “it’s time people realise what’s going on”.
On Tuesday police spokesperson Captain Lucas Sithole said although no arrests have been made yet, police were following up several leads.
Picton-Turbervill’s funeral will be held on Thursday at 10am, at the Hatfield Christian Church.
His son Jamie, 21, and his mother flew out from the UK to be with the family.
Picton-Turbervill will be cremated and his ashes scattered in Wales at the family’s estate.
In another murder, a French chef who had made her home in South Africa and earned accolades for her cooking, was found bludgeoned and burnt to death in her house in Ramsgate.
Superintendent Zandra Hechter said the body of 69-year old Yvonne Cosson was found covered with soil outside her home.
Investigations revealed that Cosson was dragged from her bed to a lounge where a struggle ensued. Cosson, who emigrated from France more than 20 years ago, owned and operated the restaurant La Petite Normandie.
Meanwhile Patrick Hlahla reports that diplomats have again fallen foul of criminals in Pretoria.
In the latest incident, two Japanese diplomats were held up at their residences – in Waterkloof and Lynnwood respectively – at the weekend.
Provincial police spokesperson Captain Dennis Adriao said yesterday that in the first incident, a Japanese diplomat was held up at gunpoint when he arrived home in Waterkloof on Saturday night.
“The security guard at the diplomat’s house had just opened the gate when two men approached him and took his cash and other personal belongings,” said Adriao.
He said in the second incident, a diplomat arrived at his Lynnwood home and was held up by two men when the security guard opened the gate for him.
“The robbers took cash and other personal belongings,” Adriao said.
He said a few hours later, police arrested a 17-year-old suspect in Pretoria’s CBD. He had been tracked down by members of the Brooklyn police and the SAPS diplomatic policing unit.
The embassy did not want to identify the diplomats involved.
Police also arrested the security guard who was on duty at the time of the robberies.
The stolen goods were recovered from the teenage suspect.
Adriao said police were still looking for a second suspect.
The attack on the Japanese suspects come after a Tanzanian diplomat Emmanuel Mwambulukutu was beaten unconscious by armed robbers during a robbery at a friend’s home in Garsfontein last month. Mwambulukutu is still recovering in hospital. One suspect was arrested in Garsfontein.