Hotel couple killed in bedroom
2004-10-20 16:59
Polokwane - Police are following up a number of clues in the hunt for the killers of a Makhado hotelier couple, said a spokesperson on Wednesday.
Superintendent Ronel Otto said Clinton and Michelle Hayward of Mountainview Hotel were killed in their bed overnight.
They are believed to have been in their late 30s or early 40s.
The killers broke a window to gain entry to the couple's home at the hotel on Tuesday night.
They shot the couple while their 12-year-old daughter was sleeping in another room. She was not harmed and is now with her maternal grandmother.
The couple's bodies were discovered by their daughter in the morning, because the father had not woken her up as he normally did.
She called neighbours for help and they alerted police.
There have been no arrests yet.
It appears not much apart from a 9mm pistol was taken from the house by robbers.
- SAPA