Couple fear their son will kill them

A Zwide couple are living in fear of being killed by their son.

And although a protection order has been issued and a complaint laid against him, he has not been arrested.

This emerged after the man’s 55-year-old mother opened the case against him.

The woman, who asked not to be named, laid a complaint after the son, 24, allegedly attacked his parents in their home.

The woman said she and her 57-year-old husband lived in constant fear that their son might come and kill them while they lay asleep, as he had allegedly threatened.

“We live in fear he might return to finish what he started,” she said.

For the past week, the woman has been sleeping at the charge office at the Kwazakhele police station while her husband is at work, due to the intimidation and death threats.

“My son came to the house on Tuesday morning making threats,” the woman said.

The couple laid the complaint on October 27, after they were almost beaten to death the day before.

“He came to the house around 2am [on Friday] high on drugs and alcohol.

“He was swearing and shouting as he entered the yard. He kicked down the kitchen door and came into our bedroom.

“He demanded my husband give him R50 for [a cab] and my husband refused.

“That’s when he attacked him,” she said.

The woman said that earlier that day her husband had given him and their daughter their monthly allowances, givlater, ing him R50 extra because he said he had things to do.

“My husband told our son he no longer had money as he had done groceries [shopping] and paid off things for the house, but my son didn’t stop until my husband ran out the house to escape,” she said.

The woman alleged that the son had then started hitting her, using his fists and a mop.

“My son yelled that he would beat me to death. When the mop broke he went and took the broom.

“He continuously hit me all over my body especially over the head and I started bleeding.

“I knew the only option I had was to act like I was dead.”

The woman said she had then waited for her son to leave the house before she called her daughter, who came with two police vans.

“By the time my daughter and the cops arrived an hour my husband had returned as well and the police advised that they rather take us to Dora Nginza first before opening a case as we had serious head wounds and the ambulance had not yet arrived.

“We were discharged on Friday afternoon and we went home to rest because we were still heavily sedated,” she said.

Later that evening, she tried calling the police again because she was too weak to go to the police station to open a case, but with no success.

In the early hours of Saturday, their son came back.

Fortunately, their daughter called the police.

“The cops took us all to the Kwazakhele police station, where we eventually opened a case, but they did not arrest him,” she said.

She said this was not the first case she had opened against her son as he had allegedly broken her arm earlier in 2018.

She was frustrated that still nothing was being done.

“I just want him to be arrested,” she said.

Police spokesperson Captain Andre Beetge confirmed that there was an active protection order, but he did not comment on why the son had not been apprehended.

“The parents made a case against the son and the son [opened a counter] case against the parents,” he said.

“On November 29, they have to appear before court for it to see how to proceed with the matter.”

‘The parents made a case against the son and the son [opened a counter] case against the parents ’ Captain André Beetge

POLICE SPOKESPERSON