Posted June 5, 2009
A woman was killed in broad daylight in Lynnwood Manor after she stumbled on a gang of armed men ransacking her house.
Cathy Odendaal was tortured, sexually assaulted and then murdered by the four-man gang who have been terrorising the suburb.
But in an unusual mobilisation of forces on Tuesday night, members of the community, along with a group of construction workers from Mamelodi, rallied together to hunt down the alleged culprits.
Two men who were found in possession of an unlicensed handgun and jewellery belonging to Odendaal were arrested – one of them was seriously hurt after being subdued by the workers.
The men broke into the Farnham Street home while Odendaal’s domestic worker Francia Majadibodu was taking a shower.
Odendaal was out shopping at the time, and believed to have been attacked by her killers, who were armed with an assortment of weapons, including a screwdriver, when she surprised them as they were ransacking her home.
The men are believed to have tortured her before sexually assaulting her.
Neighbours and police said it seemed as if the attackers were fleeing through the garden when Odendaal, who had been left for dead, managed to raise the alarm.
This apparently prompted her attackers to return.
It seems they then killed Odendaal. Police at the scene could not say whether she had been shot or stabbed.
Majadibodu discovered Odendaal’s body lying sprawled in a outside room near the kitchen.
Police spokesperson Inspector Paul Ramaloko confirmed that Odendaal had apparently been tortured before being murdered
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