'At least they won't get away'
2008-05-15 10:00
Pretoria - Colleagues of a former policeman who was killed six weeks ago in Kameeldrift, northeast of Pretoria, have tracked down the men allegedly responsible for shooting him.
Marius Van Greunen, 38, was shot seven times on a smallholding.
One of the suspects who was arrested, is also suspected of raping Margot Ludik, 35, last month in front of her six-year-old son.
Ilze Van Greunen, 34, said former colleagues of her deceased husband at the Douglasdale police station in Johannesburg on Monday night arrested six suspects in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria.
Police spokesperson inspector Balan Muthan said the six men, all between 20 and 25 years old, are being linked to 18 murders and rapes in the Kameeldrift area.
"The arrests won't take away the sadness, but at least they (the suspects) won't get away with it," said Van Greunen.
"The police made so much effort. They used their spare time, their own cellphones and private cars to find the men".
According to Van Greunen, the couple's two children, Kay, 6, and Zian, 4, were struggling to cope.
"In a second they (the suspects) took my husband's life, but for the rest of my children's lives it will be said they lost their daddy on (respectively) four and six years."