A British woman Sue Howarth and her husband Robert Lynn were awakened at 2 a.m. by three men breaking into the window of their isolated farmhouse in Dullstroom, a small town in northeastern South Africa, about The nearest capital is about 240 km.
The couple, who had lived in the area for 20 years, were tied up, stabbed and tortured with blowtorches for hours. The masked men stuffed a plastic bag down Miss Howarth's throat and attempted to strangle her husband with a bag around his neck.
The couple was herded into their separate van, still in their pajamas, and driven to the side of the road where they were shot. Mrs. Howarth, 64 years old, a former pharmaceutical company executive, was shot twice in the head. Mr. Lynn, 66 years old, was shot in the neck.
Miraculously, he survived and captured a passerby early Sunday morning. Miss Howarth, who police said was "unidentifiable" due to her injuries, suffered multiple skull fractures, gunshot wounds and "horrendous" burns to her chest.
Jana Boshoff, a reporter for the local Middelburg Observer newspaper, wrote: “Sue was discovered among the trees, lying in a ditch. “Rescuers found her by following her groans of pain and then noticed drag marks from the road to the scene. “His head was covered with a scarf. His eyes were puffy and closed. She was only partially dressed, only pieces of her shirt remained. Her chest and upper body were covered in blood. The plastic bag was stuffed tightly down his throat and had difficulty getting it out as his jaw was clenched. “How she was able to breathe with the bag in her throat remains a mystery. One of her rescuers later recalled that Sue was unresponsive except for continuously moaning. As the man ran towards the road to see if the ambulance had arrived, she tried to wrap an arm around her chest in a last-ditch effort to protect herself.
She was taken to hospital and placed on life support but died two days later.
Last year, Meshack Yika, 28, and Themba Yika, 38, of Bergendal Farm, near Belfast in South Africa, were both sentenced to 37 years in prison.
While the government denies farm killings are a problem and politicians incite violence by chanting “Kill the wild boar,” I will continue to post what is going on here and share with Mr. Trump. The horrifying, heartbreaking story of Robert Lynn.
