Kraaifontein resident Rob Bisset was in for a huge shock on a short stop to the CapeGate Shopping Centre today, Friday 9 May. Just 15 minutes after his arrival he returned to his car in the underground parking lot, around 12:00, to discover two of its wheels had been stolen.
“I spotted suspicious-looking men in a vehicle parked in front of me, but shifted attention when I turned back to pay for my parking,” he related. On coming out again the vehicle was missing two of its wheels.
Video footage made available to police by Cape Gate shows the suspects stop at Bisset’s Volkswagen Golf MK, jacking-up the car to take the wheels off and then casually driving off.
Chair of the Tygerberg Sub-cluster Community Policing Forum, he said the suspects’ car, a blue Honda Ballade with a black bonnet, was believed to have been registered in Green Point.
Bisset believes his Golf MK, considered a classic, was specifically targeted.
“They could have been watching me for a while and followed me into the centre,” he told TygerBurger.
“Centre management apologised to me and assisted police; what else could they do? It is upsetting that something like this could happen in broad daylight, in a paid-parking lot where one’s vehicle is supposed to be safe.”
The Brackenfell police were investigating, following-up on all available leads.
TygerBurger had contacted the Cape Gate Shopping Centre and was awaiting comment.
