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Mystery surrounds double murder
03/04/2008 22:32 - (SA)
Henry Cloete
Bloemfontein - The bodies of Flip Engelbrecht and an unknown man - victims of a mysterious double murder outside Vrede in the eastern Free State - have been found in the grass on Geluksvlei farm.
According to police, Engelbrecht, 47, had been shot in the chest.
The other man, aged in his forties, had been shot from behind.
It was suspected that they had been shot by truck hijackers.
A farm labourer found Engelbrecht's blood-stained vehicle near the farm and called for help.
Engelbrecht, who worked at Saamstaan Voere in Vrede, lived in Geluksvlei.
According to Sergeant Mmako Mophiring, Engelbrecht was last seen alive late on Tuesday afternoon while his car was at the farm gate.
A silver Toyota was also there as was a lorry, when a friend of Engelbrecht's, a farmer in the area who asked to remain anonymous, drove past.
The lorry and the other car drove away when we turned around to see if everything was okay," said the friend, who is devastated by Engelbrechat's death.
"I've known him since 1982 and we had become good friends.
"We got up to lots of mischief together before I was married."
Police suspected that the murders could be linked to a truck hijacking and that it wasn't a farm murder.
Police saw the bodies on Wednesday morning shortly after the farm labourer had called them.
'Wrong place, wrong time'
The two men's bodies were found by police about 10m off the road on the farm.
Engelbrecht's car was found about three kilometres further down the road.
Engelbrecht's sister, Hester Karsten of Middelburg in Mpumalanga, said his family was shocked and couldn't believe it.
"It sounds as if he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"Flip had such a good heart. He was one of those people who always greeted everyone.
"We suspect that he may have stopped next to the truck to see if he could help, or otherwise to ask them to move it so that he could go through the farm gate."
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