Two prisoners who escaped from Sandton’s Leeuwkop prison have been re-arrested after they went on a rampage, robbing a house in Fourways, kidnapping a four-month- old baby and hijacking a double cab vehicle.
Johannesburg - Two murder-accused prisoners who escaped from Sandton’s Leeuwkop prison have been re-arrested after they went on a rampage, robbing a house in Fourways, kidnapping a four-month-old baby and hijacking a double cab vehicle.
The prisoners, who were serving murder sentences of 10 and 30 years between them, were re-arrested after they crashed a double cab van they had hijacked into a ditch in Diepsloot.The Diepsloot community, said the Johannesburg Metro Police Department, attacked the prisoners after they crashed the hijacked vehicle into a ditch in the area.
JMPD spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said officers who were patrolling in Diepsloot spotted the double cab driving at a high speed along the R511 and Plum Street, before the vehicle drove into a ditch.“Officers discovered that the two male suspects had escaped from Leeuwkop Prison, where they were serving sentences of ten years and thirty years for murders which they committed.”
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