Devoted couple murdered by armed robbers
A WELSH couple were found murdered by armed robbers who dumped their bodies in a South African river.
Grandparents Roger and Christine Solik – who moved from Wales to South Africa in 1981 – were killed in the robbery at their farmland estate.
Police are hunting the armed raiders who broke into their house before tying them up and dumping them in a river.
Christine, 57, was found dead in a river 45 miles from her home, and the body of Parkinson’s patient Roger, 66, was discovered the next day.
Neighbours reported finding the couple’s home had been broken into and a search was launched for the “inseparable” pair.
The couple, from Abercynon, near Aberdare, are understood to have moved to South Africa after getting married in 1980.
In a statement, their four children said: “Our parents were inseparable and their relationship was something to aspire to.
“It is hard to understand that on their community farmland estate, and neighbours 100m away, that something so violent could happen.
“Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.”
Their children, twins Alexander and Gregory, 32, Jessica, 30, and Brendon, 29, described them as devoted to each other.
The family launched an appeal to find Roger after Christine’s body was found in Impendle, Natal, 45 miles from her home in the town of Nottingham Road.
They said they had been informed by their local police chief that their mother was dead and their father was missing.