South Africa
Another alleged kidnapping hours after biokineticist is found─── 09:50 Sun, 26 Mar 2023
Reports of another alleged kidnapping were shared on social media after a 26-year-old biokineticist from Gqeberha was kidnapped a week ago.
Algoa FM reports that 24-year-old Hilton Wicks was allegedly kidnapped in the early hours of Friday morning near his house in Maclear.
They made several inquiries to the police who informed them that the Hawks had taken over the investigation. The Hawks' Yolisa Mgolodela said she had not yet been informed about the Wicks matter.
Biokineticist Riana Pretorius was kidnapped in front of her workplace on Pickering Street in Newton Park last Thursday. Forty-year-old Xolisile Rawutini was arrested in Deal Party just hours after the crime was committed and charged with illegally possessing a firearm.
Rawutini is expected back in court on 5 April.
A ransom demand of R2 million was made for her safe return a day after Pretorius was kidnapped.
