Innholdsfortegnelse for 2022-05-09 i Daily Voice

IT was a bleak Mother’s Day for a Bishop Lavis woman who lost her two children when their home was petrol-bombed on Friday. Tears flowed as the charred bodies of two little brothers were removed from the debris on Friday morning. Five-year-old Xache Weideman and his four-year-old brother Jaune-Ray died after being trapped in their room as flames engulfed their home, just after midnight on Thursday. Heartbroken mother, Chenay Engelbrecht, says the devastating blaze happened just hours after their stepfather had been threatened at her home in Arthur Abrahams Avenue. “I came home with them after we went to the shop. They fell asleep in the bed and I still used my blanket to cover them,” Chenay tells the Daily Voice. “Earlier in the day, a man on a bike…

POLICE have revealed that a man who disarmed a cop and killed three people at New Somerset Hospital on Saturday night is himself a former officer. The shocking shooting incident happened on the second floor of the surgical ward, where Sea Point SAPS officer, Constable Donay Phillips, was guarding an injured man he had brought to hospital for treatment. Two patients were killed instantly while Constable Phillips died from a gunshot wound to the head yesterday morning. According to the Western Cape Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Thembisile Patekile, the 40-year-old shooter is a former cop from Hopefield who was dismissed in 2006/7. He could not immediately disclose the reason for the dismissal yesterday. Patekile said the incident was not gang-related and the victims appeared to have been shot at random, while…