Domestic worker in plot to rob boss's house

Under heavy police interrogation, a domestic worker has confessed to conspiring to have her employers' home robbed.

On June 27, three armed men stormed into a house in Henry Road, Rivonia, held up a domestic worker and her employer and made off with electrical goods, jewellery and a car, with a total value of R300 000.

Gauteng police spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman, said initial investigations were slow as detectives "had no real leads".

A tip-off suggesting that the domestic worker was involved, prompted police to arrest the woman and question her at Sandton Police Station.

"The breakthrough came after detectives thoroughly interviewed the domestic worker, who broke down and told detectives she had arranged for her employers to be robbed," Opperman said.

The woman allegedly plotted with another domestic worker from a nearby house, to arrange for men to commit the alleged crime.

"This led to the employer and domestic worker being held up," Opperman said.

Members of the Sandton Robbery Reaction Unit on Thursday arrested the second domestic worker and one of the three suspected robbers.

Police are still searching for the other two suspects.

The three suspects, aged between 35 and 51, appeared in the Wynberg magistrate's court on Friday, on charges of aggravated robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery.