Slow police response

A victim of an armed robbery quite rightly complained on your letters page about the lethargic process of our law courts (YOU Say, 21 July).

In August 2013 my husband and I drove into our driveway and a silver Polo, which we thought belonged to our neighbours’ children as they have the same car, was on our tail and drove to within an inch of our car.

I screamed and ran but my husband found himself staring down the barrel of a revolver. My husband punched the assailant but he fired two shots. One bullet went through my husband’s knee, the other through my car.

To this day when we ask what’s going on with the case we’re told, “Your husband didn’t die. We only investigate deaths.”

My husband took months to learn to walk again and if he hadn’t punched that guy he’d have had a bullet in his brain.

Our car was located but was seriously damaged, and while it was in police custody for one night someone stole the inner key of the key fob.

We now have CCTV everywhere plus a second set of gates.

Thanks, SAPS, for nothing. CINDY HODGKISS, EMAIL

I agree wholeheartedly with the writer who wonders when she’ll get the justice owed her. I wish state prosecutors would work with as much fervour for ordinary folk as they did on the Oscar Pistorius case. Gerrie Nel was determined to see Oscar pay for his crime but the ordinary citizens of this country don’t get the same treatment from our courts.

My cousin was murdered in cold blood and all his murderer got was a five-year suspended sentence.

Most people in this country have been a victim of crime but never a victor of justice. ANGRY, CAPE TOWN