Murder-torture death from March 2014 attack: Rynfield resident Wynand Roelof Cornelis du Plessis, 62, died in hospital from the injuries sustained in a horrific assault in his house 3 weeks earlier.
April 2 2014 - Mr Du Plessis, who lived at 170 Pretoria Road, Rynfield, was " attacked and badly assaulted by unknown people in his
house and died of his injuries in hospital on March 25, as has only become known in the first week of April 2014.
He was tied up with a rope and then horrifically beaten, the house's walls were spattered with blood, the floor in the kitchen was soaked in blood. His skull was fractured, he suffered bleeding and swelling of the brain, his heart and other internal organs were severely damaged.
He was taken to hospital his head was bruised and swollen to twice its size. He never was able to talk nor physically see anyone until his death.
THESE PEOPLE WANTED TO MAKE MY DAD SUFFER
Speaking of her father’s brutal attack, daughter Ida du Plessis-Pretorius said the family is completely devastated by the murder.
“I can’t put words to it; the kind of people who did it tried to make him suffer and I don’t think they were just petty criminals,” she said.
She added that the wounds her father suffered were extensive and wicked.He sustained a fractured skull bone, bleeding and swelling of the brain, and his heart sustained severe damage,
as did other internal organs.The injury to his brain, as well as the severity of the attack, resulted in function-loss of his right arm.
Following the attack, he was unable to see anyone, and was never able to talk again.
“When I went to see him in hospital his head was bruised and swollen to twice its size,” she said.
Du Plessis, who was off work on the day the incident occurred, was discovered by his son, Wynand (Jnr), when he returned home from work.
Benoni police spokesperson Lieut Nomsa Sekele said du Plessis was found lying unconscious on the floor and bleeding.
“He was tied up with a rope; there was blood on the walls and floor in the kitchen and the house had been ransacked,” she added.
The SAPS-lieutenant said the safe was found open and an undisclosed amount of money had been taken from it.
She said a flat screen TV and music system were found wrapped in a duvet cover in the passage.
The perpetrators left with Mr Du Plessis’s blue Proton bakkie, identity book and cellphone.
These have not been recovered. The SAPS said they are investigating a robbery and a murder case.
Initially they were investigating attempted murder until Mr Du Plessis died of his injuries in hospital.
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