Concern over Coffee Bay killing

Daily Dispatch

@Dispatch_DD LOCAL business owners in Coffee Bay said they were having problems after the recent reported case of murder at Hole-in-the-Wall’s Gigi’s Pub and Accommodation.

Last week the Dispatch reported that 57-year-old Michael Quin, a resident of Gigi’s, was found dead by a cleaner on Tuesday. He had suffered several stab wounds.

According to provincial police spokeswoman Brigadier Marinda Mills, the self-employed electrician’s body was discovered by workers at Gigi’s Catering Units near the Coffee Bay Hotel.

“Preliminary investigations revealed that sustained several stab wounds from a sharp Mills said last week.

Coffee Bay Campsite owner Mike Kunig told the Dispatch on Sunday that they had experienced problems of customers not wanting to come to their businesses after the report.

“We have a campsite that has over 50 sites on the beach at Coffee Bay … We are scared that we will lose our business,” Kunig said, adding that Hole-inthe-Wall was about 9km from the Coffee Bay Hotel.

Another business owner, Annette Clark of Sea Shells Guest House said people perceived the incident as an attack on a tourist. However, the victim was a resident.

Clark said: “There was a tourism function recently and my stepdaughter was there and people were told not to go to Coffee Bay because visitors are in danger.”

Clark assured that no tourists had been attacked in Coffee Bay.

Coffee Bay police spokesman Zamukulungisa Jozana said there had been no arrests for Quin’s death yet.

According to residents in Hole-in-the-Wall, Quin’s death was a concern because it was not the first murder in the area.

However, Clark said each case was different. It was either a “personal thing or a robbery that has gone wrong or something along those lines”. — he object,”