Business owner stabbed and stoned to death

The owner of a garage in Shannon in the Free State was stabbed and pelted to death with stones, police said on Tuesday.

BLOEMFONTEIN. – Mr Hennie Viljoen was ambushed on Monday December 27 2010 and bludgeoned to death by armed black men who were waiting for him at the entrance to his Bloemspruit smallholding near Bloemfontein shortly after he had withdrawn cash from a nearby cashpoint.

He had stepped from his Peugeot 407 to open the entrance gate to the homestead when he was killed.

He was stabbed in his arm and his chest; as well as hit with stones on his head and died on the scene. The assailants fled with an unknown amount of cash and the man's Peugeot vehicle. The car was later found overturned on a road in Bloemspruit. The attackers had fled on foot by the time police got there.

No arrests have been made.Anyone with information can contact the investigating officer Warrant Officer Michael Kortman from the Organised Crime Unit in Bloemfontein at 082-554-2729.