A MOTHER of two in her 40s was tied up and stabbed to death in her home in Hermanus, Western Cape police have said.
Juliet Haw, 43, of the suburb Voelklip, was found in the pantry of her home in Third Street by her father at about 3.30pm.
Her children's school phoned him when Haw failed to fetch her children.
"The school called the grandfather at about 2.45pm to say the children, aged 10 and 12, had not yet been fetched," police spokesman Warrant Officer November Filander said yesterday.
The father had last spoken to his daughter at noon when she wanted to borrow a lawnmower from him.
Filander said the father left for Haw's house and saw through a bedroom window that the house was in a mess.
He eventually found her body in the pantry next to the kitchen.
She had been tied up and had multiple stab wounds to her chest.
A cellphone and a laptop were reported missing. No arrests had been made.
"The police forensic team is still on the scene collecting information," Filander said.
"At this stage the motive looks like robbery."
Two years ago businessman Hannes Kleynhans, 66, chairman of the Hermanus Golf Club, was shot in the head in front of his wife after three armed men walked in at the back door of their house in Fernkloof.
US businessman Perry Page was murdered in his home in 2007 in Main Road after he and his wife were attacked.
Page was stabbed in the neck and chest and his wife was tied up.
Mom's stabbed body found in pantry
A MOTHER of two in her 40s was tied up and stabbed to death in her home in Hermanus, Western Cape police have said.
Juliet Haw, 43, of the suburb Voelklip, was found in the pantry of her home in Third Street by her father at about 3.30pm.
Her children's school phoned him when Haw failed to fetch her children.
"The school called the grandfather at about 2.45pm to say the children, aged 10 and 12, had not yet been fetched," police spokesman Warrant Officer November Filander said yesterday.
The father had last spoken to his daughter at noon when she wanted to borrow a lawnmower from him.
Filander said the father left for Haw's house and saw through a bedroom window that the house was in a mess.
He eventually found her body in the pantry next to the kitchen.
She had been tied up and had multiple stab wounds to her chest.
A cellphone and a laptop were reported missing. No arrests had been made.
"The police forensic team is still on the scene collecting information," Filander said.
"At this stage the motive looks like robbery."
Two years ago businessman Hannes Kleynhans, 66, chairman of the Hermanus Golf Club, was shot in the head in front of his wife after three armed men walked in at the back door of their house in Fernkloof.
US businessman Perry Page was murdered in his home in 2007 in Main Road after he and his wife were attacked.
Page was stabbed in the neck and chest and his wife was tied up.
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