Horror attack on mom, teens

POLICE are probing a bizarre stabbing at the home of a Phoenix family where two years ago, a young woman died allegedly after a fight with her younger sister.

The surviving sister, her boyfriend and mother were stabbed on Sunday, allegedly by a man known to them.

While the man is in police custody pending his court appearance, the family has remained tight-lipped on what prompted the attack.

A police source told POST the man had, until recently, lived with the 51-year-old mother and her 18-year-old daughter. He returned on Sunday to pick up his belongings.

The mother, daughter and girl’s boyfriend were at home.

“While gathering his belongings, he asked the woman for something to eat and while preparing his meal, the suspect went into the kitchen, picked up a knife and began stabbing her on her left thigh, left elbow and lower back,” said the police source.

When the daughter and her boyfriend, also 18, heard the woman’s screams for help, they attempted to help her.

Hospitalised

“The accused then turned the knife on the couple, injuring the daughter on her hand. The boyfriend was stabbed multiple times on the chest, body and stomach.”

The woman and her daughter’s boyfriend have been hospitalised.

Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane, confirmed the incident.

He said a case of attempted murder was being investigated.

In February 2015, the family made headlines in POST when the daughter, who was 16 at the time, was investigated in connection with her older sister’s death.

An argument had allegedly ensued between the siblings after the older sister found bite marks on her sister’s neck.

The older sister told her she was too young to have a boyfriend and wanted her to focus on her studies.

At the time, the mother claimed her older daughter had started the physical fight and she had tried to intervene.

She claimed the older daughter was on top of her sister, hitting her repeatedly, and when the younger daughter finally managed to get her off, the elder child fell and hit her head on the floor.

A few days later she felt ill and doctors found that she was bleeding internally. An inquest docket was opened when she died. The younger sister was not charged.