Survive: Mother and daughter Phyllis and Isabel Mansfield attacked by black worker who had lived with them for 18 years
"He looked possessed< i am sure he wanted to beat me to death"...
Krugersdorp: The News. Nov 1 2014 A mother and daughter from Tarlton are lucky to be alive after being attacked brutally by a worker who had lived with them for 18 years.
Phyllis and Isabel Mansfield are recovering at home after the attack on 1 November in their horse stables on their smallholding. Isabel, the mother was discharged the Wednesday after the incident whereas Phyllis, the mother of the three-year-old who witnessed the attack, only was discharge almost a week later.
The news reported aout the attack on the front page of its 14 November edition.
“This has been an enormous trauma on Annabelle, seeing that she witnessed everything,” said Phyllis. Little Annabelle now suffers from horrible nightmares and is concerned constantly about the safety of her mother and grandmother.
”Where is he? Why did he beat mommy and granny? Where is he hiding and when will he return?” are some of the questions Annabelle asked.
Besides her shaven head covered in stitches, Phyllis temporarily cannot use her hands as they are still recovering after being injured severely in the attack.
Even though doctors are satisfied with the recovery of Phyllis’ hands, they are very concerned about the injuries to her head.
“I remember talking to Annabelle and handing her a pack of carrots to feed her pony when the attacker appeared out of nowhere and charged towards me with a pipe.”
Phyllis believes that had her mother not come to see what the commotion in the stable was all about, she probably would have been dead.
“He looked possessed, I am sure he wanted to beat me to death; I could see it in his eyes. He knew our routine and he was premeditating the attack,” an emotional Phyllis described the ordeal.
She remembers hearing her mother asking the attacker what was going on before witnessing him beating the elderly woman over the head from behind. She said she thought her mother was dead.
“I tried to get up after the first attack but he came back and beat me another five times. I then decided to lie still and play dead,” Isabel said.
The attacker assumed the grandmother to be dead and continued beating Phyllis before fleeing from the stables.
“I do not understand why he attacked me, but because we know who it was, it is easier to deal with.”
The News understands that once apprehended the attacker will face changes of attempted murder and assault.
Although the family had received a lead about the whereabouts of the attacker, he is still at large
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Survived: Three year old Annabelle sees gruesome attack with steel pipe on her mom Phyllis Mansfield and grandmom Isabel by black worker
- Terrified Afrikaans child hides in stable watching the horrific attack by long-time black male worker who fled. Nothing robbed.
TARLTON, KRUGERSDORP, SOUTH AFRICA - Marizka Coetzer 7 November 2014 13:00
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A R10,000 reward has been offered for anyone who provides information which would lead to the arrest of the black male suspect.
Contact colonel Meyambo at 073 701 0757 for more information.
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TARLTON, KRUGERSDORP, SOUTH AFRICA - Marizka Coetzer 7 November 2014 13:00
Lukas Snyman, here showing her latest picture before her attack, said his wife Phyllis Mansfield was in surgery for seven hours. "She broke both her arms and wrists, several fingers and her right palm were crushed. My mother-in-law Isabel's arm was damaged, a finger on her left-hand is crushed and she has open wounds'.
A R10,000 cash reward is offered for anyone providing information which will lead to the arrest and imprisonment of an unnamed long-time worker who attacked Phyllis and Isabel Mansfield . The two women's ordeal started shortly after day-break after the husband and wife had their 'alone-time' at breakfast before their little girl Annabelle, 3, wakes up.
After Annabelle woke up she wanted to go the stables with her mom and their dogs to let the horses out. "Then I heard the dogs raising a loud barking and my wife screaming'.
Just afterwards little Annabelle showed up at the kitchen door - covered in blood. Snyman said he initially thought his wife was attacked by the dogs but soon realised that his wife was hit with a steel pipe and then dragged to an empty stable where the black male attacker apparently planned to assault her further. Snyman had rushed to the bedroom to FETCH HIS PISTOL and then ran around the house to find his daughter - but instead came across his mother-in-law Isabel Mansfield, covered in blood. She was assaulted by the same man with a metal pipe after she went to investigate the noise from the dogs and her daughter's screams. The panic-stricken grandmother shouted the attacker's name while Snyman took her to the kitchen.
He found his wife in an empty horse-stall, semi-unconscious and covered in blood. His wife repeatedly said the attacker's name before she passed out in the kitchen where Snyman had taken her. Just then little Annabelle appeared behind him when he opened the kitchen door. The terrified Snyman then locked himself, his daughter, wife and grandmother inside the house and contacted the EPR's armed reaction unit before taking the two woman to the emergency department of the Netcare Krugersdorp Hospital with his daughter. Little Annabelle was given trauma treatment and during the 'play-acting session' it became clear to the adults that the child had seen everything, that she had hidden in an empty horse-stall which contained saw-dust bales, and that she too was able to identify the attacker as the man who had worked for the family for a long time.
Isabel Mansfield was released from hospital after she received treatment and is now recovering at home. Her daughter Phyllis is still in hospital after surgery.
“My wife was in surgery for seven hours. She broke both her arms and wrists, several fingers and her right palm also were crushed.'
Snyman said he believed the black worker launched the attack in revenge. He worked for the family for about 18 years and recently received a final legal notice to vacate the Snyman's smallholding. The suspect has fled. Snyman thanked everyone who came to their rescue, EPR, the private hospital personnel, the staff at the child's kindergarten, and a 'very special thank you to Colonel Meyambo of the Tarlton SAPS.' A R10,000 reward has been offered for anyone who provides information which would lead to the arrest of the black male suspect.
Contact colonel Meyambo at 073 701 0757 for more information.
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