16.1.98. Daantjie van Vuuren, 42, shot dead on his farm at Wilgerspoort, near Balfour, Mpumalanga, when the family came under surprise attack by four armed Black men. Mrs Johanna Pieterse, 77, and her daughter, Tinnie van Zyl, 32, were severely beaten and tied up with telephone wire. The robbers seized firearms from a gun safe. A search for the attackers was launched by two policemen and a farmer. In a shoot out, three of the attackers were killed, as was a police officer, Det. Sgt. Lehlohonoto Zendo of the Balfour Detective Unit. Zondo is survived by two sons, Thabo, 8, and Lechaba, 3. The fourth attacker was arrested when he emerged from his hiding place in a dam and tried to sneak past the homes of the farm workers. Police confiscated a 9 mm pistol. 
  
14.298. Mr Piet de Beer, 63, badly wounded in the face and chest and his wife, Maxie, 57, killed when three Black gunmen attacked the couple's Doringfontein farm at Ottosdal in Natal. At no stage did the killers enter the house, instead bringing it under a hail of gunfire which shattered windows and pierced doors. Mrs de Beer was shot as she tried to call police after her husband was wounded while watching TV. Mr de Beer said he only realised Maxie was dead in the passage of their home when, blinded by blood pouring into his eyes, he stumbled to the bedroom to fetch his shotgun. Maxie had been shot in the chest. Police believe that the attackers had hoped to eliminate the couple and then gain access to the house, in the belief that Mr de Beer kept money from his farm store there. 

 16.298. Mr Gert Grobler, 42, and his fiance's daughter, Engela Smit, 15, hacked to death with an axe when attacked by two Black youths on Plot 270, Ruvel Road, De Deur, Vaal Triangle. Firearms and jewellery taken from the house. Mr Jacon Tsotsi said he was preparing to feed Mr Grobler's chickens when incessant barking by dogs at the servants quarters drew his attention. "I went over and slowly pushed the door open. The sight in front of me was shocking. Mr Grobler was lying sprawled on the floor, with blood on his face and on the floor." He went to a neighbour, Mr Jan Basson, to call the police. While they waited, Mr Basson went to check on the main house. He saw a shotgun lying in the passage. Jumping over it, he went to Engela's room. Blood was spattered all over the walls and floor. He crossed to the bed, pulled off the covers and saw Engela's battered body. 
  
Late February, 1998. Farm labourer, Elias Nkabinda, 50, hanged and his employer,  
Gert Johannes Greyling, 70, seriously wounded in attack on farm in Bethal, Mpumalanga. The two victims discovered when a neighbour, JDJ van Vuuren, noticed Mr Greyling's cattle still in the veld at 6.30p.m., long after they were normally herded into a kraal for the night. Suspecting something was wrong, he went to the farmhouse. Peeping through a window, he saw Mr Greyling lying in a pool of blood, his hands and legs tied behind him with wire. Nkabinda's body was found hanging from the rafters of his cottage. After Mr Greyling was rushed to hospital police reported: "Mr van Vuuren went to Nkabinda's house with the intention of asking if he'd seen anything but found the labourer also tied up with wire and hanging from the ceiling rafters. Mr Nkabinda's severe injuries suggested he had put up a fierce resistance. He may have been hanged for trying to fight his attackers off." Police at that stage could not give a precise time for the attack, because Mr Greyling was still unconscious in ICU. 
  
1.3.98. Mr Johan Bruell, 63, and his wife, 56, from Randfontein found strangled in their granny flat on a plot in Rikasrus, Randfontein. The house had  been ransacked, "with items strewn all over the place." 
  
5.3.98. Mr Christo Otto Fischer, 65, of the farm Spitskop near Kranskop, KZN, shot three times in the head when he was attacked by three Blacks about 5 p.m. Two men assaulted him as he got out of his bakkie to open a gate at the plantation on his farm. The attackers threw him into the bakkie before driving into the plantation where he was assaulted and shot with his own .32 revolver. His body and bakkie were found late that night. A labourer was later arrested. 
  
7.3.98. Body of Mr P Rimbo of the farm Nooitgedach, Middelburg, found in his residence, with deep scratch marks. No further details given. 

11.3.98. Theodore Stanley Taitz, 61, shot dead at point blank range within earshot of a police patrol while selling mealies on his farm at New Modder on the East Rand. His attackers approached him pretending to be customers, when one produced a gun and shot him. On hearing shots a police Dog Unit patrol on routine crime prevention duty raced to the scene where eyewitnesses pointed out three men jumping into a minibus taxi. One of the murderers shot dead by police after stabbing an officer while trying to escape. 
  
13.3.98. Farmer Burt Weber, 44, of Marble Hall seriously wounded and "cruelly tortured" when his farm came under attack by five armed Black robbers in the early hours of the morning. Mr Weber, who was wounded under his right ear, in the right shoulder, while a bullet that hit him in the chest penetrated a lung, died later in hospital. His wife, Pieta, was assaulted and kicked, and his 12 year old son was pistol whipped about the head. 
The robbers escaped with R60 000 worth of goods, including two pistols and jewellery. They fled in the family's white Toyota Corolla. 

13.3.98. Mr Wilfred Murley, 47, of Edwards Farm, Peacevale in the Inchanga area, KZN, died of a gunshot wound in the head after his home was attacked by three armed Black men. 
16.3.98. Dave Ronaldson, 68, was shot dead and his wife, Faye, 65, was pistol whipped when three robbers attacked their farm, Sunrise Seedlings, about 10 km from Pietermaritzburg, KZN. 
  
16.3.98. Sheila, 58, wife of Peter Marais of the farm Newlands, outside Warmbaths in the  
Northern Province, murdered for her handbag on a deserted dust road. Post mortem showed she had been shot through the chest. Mr Marais found her slumped on the wheel of her car. He at first thought she had suffered a heart attack, but then saw a bullet had passed through her upper right arm into her chest. 
  
17.3.98. Hendrik Rautenbach, 66, critically wounded after Black robbers shot him in the head and killed his wife, Anna Marie, 63, on their Uitylught smallholding near Vereeniging at lunchtime. 
Police said it appeared that Mr Rautenbach and his wife were overpowered about 1.30 p.m. She was tied up in her bedroom and shot. The robbers, having stolen two firearms, fled in the family vehicle, a Volkswagen Golf. 

 20.3.98. Frans Pieter Roussouw, 63, stabbed to death, and his wife, Tokkie, 64, assaulted by two Black youths armed with knives while watching TV at their farmhouse at Modderfontein. The front door ·was open because it was hot and they were expecting guests. The youths, apparently aged be tween 16 and 20, walked through the door and told Mr Roussouw they wanted weapons and money. As he got up to open the safe in the bedroom, one of the youths lunged forward and stabbed Mr Roussouw in the heart and stomach. The police commented: "The irony is he wanted to cooperate  and they still stabbed him." The two killers tied Mrs Roussouw to a chair with copper wire. They took a double gauge shotgun, a .22 rifle and a 9mm pistol. 
  
4.4.98. Mr Hendrik Strauss of the farm Palmietfontein near Bloemhof shot dead while asleep in his bedroom. His wife heard two shots, went to investigate and found her husband dead. Suspects unknown, motive unknown. 
  
14.4.98. Mr Gieljam Otto, 81, and his wife, Isabella, attacked by two unknown Black men on their Weltevreden farm at Roossenekal. Mr Otto was later found in a storeroom, with his hands tightly bound and choked to death. His assailants had crammed his mouth full of fertiliser then gagged him with a cloth wrapped over his nose and mouth. He was also stabbed. Mrs Otto was tied up with wire and locked in the bathroom but managed to release herself and climbed through a window to raise the alarm. The killers must have had advance information because they demanded a shotgun which was locked in the gunsafe and money. Police found the shotgun and a.22 rifle in Mr Otto's car, which the killers had obviously wished to use in their getaway, but were unable to start. 

15.4.98. Mr George Theron, an invalid, and his wife Susan attacked by unknown Black assailants on their Smallholdings Plot 7, Vanderbippark. Mr Theron died after being shot in the neck, chest, jaw and shoulder. Mrs Theron uninjured. Before running away, the killers took Mr Theron's Vektor 9 mm pistol. 

18.4.98. Potgietersrus farmer and retired polic brigadier, Karel Kruger, confronted by six Black men at his farm gate and shot at while he was driving away from his plot in the Jaagbaan smallholding at 10 a.m. He died at the scene. The killers reportedly escaped in a green car and a yellow  BMW. His VW-Kombi was stolen. 

18.4.98. Dr Claude Drummond, 70, killed after four men, one pretending to be sick, approached him on his farm near Louis Trichardt. When Dr Drummond took them to his farm surgery the men produced firearms and demanded R7 000. When he said he didn't have R7 000, he was shot three times in the chest. Jewellery, a firearm and R200 cash stolen. 
  
23.4.98. Mr Johannes du Plessis, 53, of Smallholding Plot 7, Drakeville, Vanderbijlpark, attacked on his farm and shot dead. House plundered and three firearms missing. 

30.4.98. Mr John Hamilton, 58, and his wife, Ronnie, 59, attacked on their smallholding about 3 km outside Port St Johns and brutalised for more than two hours in a frenzied attack by two Black men armed with knives and pangas. The two were severely tortured and beaten while their home was ransacked. Mr Hamilton was slashed and hacked to death. One of Mrs Hamilton's arms was nearly severed by a panga blow. A .22 gun and clothing stolen. A Nelspruit man visiting the area, Mr Mike Kromhout, said: "I've never seen anything like it. The house looked as though it had been sprayed in blood. it was like a scene from a horror movie." 

13.5.98. Mr Norman Alexander McCardle, 76, murdered on his smallholding in Bredell, Kempton Park. Mr McCardle was shot in the upper leg and died at the scene. A neighbour, hearing the shots, fired at the killers, who were carrying a hi-fi and a TV set. 

13.5.98. Mr Daniel Marais murdered on his farm Maridale, Kofficfontein, by one of his workers. Mr Marais had paid the bail granted the worker, earlier arrested for a previous murder: and was killed by the same worker the next day. 
  
14.5.98. Bodies of Hannes Marais, 88, and his wife, Anna, 85, found on their farm Baviaanskrans outside Ladismith in the Cape Karoo. Both had been shot at close range. The bodies were found lying in front of an open safe in a bedroom. 

15.5.98. Don Delafield, 65, and his wife, Verina, bludgeoned to death in their Leeuwpoort  
farmhouse outside Rustenburg The bodies discovered at 9 a.m. Sunday by Mr Beet Klappers, Verina's father, who lived in a cottage about 40 m from the main house. He investigated when he could not raise the Delafields either by phone or on the intercom. Mr Delafield was at home watching rugby on TV when the killers arrived. Police said it appeared he knew the people and let them into the house as there was no sign of forced entry. At the time of his murder Mr Delafield was recovering from a hip replacement operation and was using a wheelchair. He bled to death after being stabbed in 
an artery below the ear. 
The killers dragged him into a passage while they waited for Verina, who had gone to buy a 
newspaper. She was ambushed when she returned home about 230 p.m. It appeared the killers had waited for her for sometime, as an empty whisky bottle was left on the floor and cigarettes had been stubbed out on the lounge carpet. Verina died of excessive blood loss after suffering massive blows to the head with a poker. The attackers dragged the dying woman into a bedroom. Her underwear was missing and evidence indicated she had been raped. Her hands and feet were tied. The murderers had put the couple's vicious bull terrier out of action by feeding him boerewors heavily laced with insecticide. Apart from a small pistol, nothing was stolen. Police offered a R30 000 reward for in formation leading to the arrest of the killers. 
  
 24.5.98. Dennis Peterson, 72 of Frere Farm near Estcourt, KZN, found dead outside his house in the early morning by a cattle herder. Hands tied tightly behind his back and massive contusions to the head. Firearms and a TV missing. 
  
26.5.98. James, no other name given, an employee at Sunrise Farm, Barberton, found dead in the farmhouse. Throat slit and deep wounds in the back. 

 26.5.98. While working on his land Mr Barkhuizen, of Fern Aber Farm in Muden, KZN, noticed strangers approaching the residence. While on his way to investigate, he heard shots. He found his wife, Yvonne, dead, with gunshots in her right side. Killers and motive unknown. 

27.5.98. Hendrik Coetzee, 49, attacked on his remote Valleifontein farm, Lichtenburg, about 9 p.m. after going outside to say goodnight to a neighbour who had been helping him repair a tractor. 
Before he could get back into the house, his wife Hanna heard shots and her husband shouting.  
Coetzee's son, Kobus, 22, ran outside and was shot twice in the hips. While his father was struggling with two attackers outside, he heard his wife, Johann, scream in the kitchen. Although badly wounded, he left the two men outside and tackled the man who was struggling with his wife. The attacker shouted for help and the other two came running into the kitchen. Coetzee, who had been a boxer in his youth, grabbed the three and, with a superhuman effort, managed to shove them out of the door, then collapsed and died. He had been shot at least eight times in the chest, neck and elsewhere. The killers also shot dead the family's pet cat.  

29.5.98. Mrs Susanna Bodenstein, returning to the farm Saamkop Boerdery, Letsitele, at 4.40 p.m.  observed a barricade thrown across the road. She tried to make a U turn but was attacked and shot by two Black men. Killers stole her maroon BMW, cash and Baretta pistol. 

29.5.98. Albert Mtembo and his wife attacked in their home on the Plaston farm, Witrivier by two unknown Black men. Mr Mtembo shot dead. Suspects fled, having taken a small amount of cash. 

26.6.98. Mrs Doreen Whelehan, 75, murdered at her Dexter cattle stud farm, Muldersdrif. Mrs Whelehan's body was found on the floor of her lounge, her hands tied behind her back. Police said a jersey had been thrown over her head and it appeared she had been hit with an unidentified object. 
House ransacked and a number of electrical appliances taken. Mrs Whelehan had lived alone since the death of her husband, a prominent cattle breeder. The body was found by her domestic worker, when she arrived for work in the early morning. 

4.7.98. Mrs Martha Oosthuizan, of the farm Zandfontein, Ladismith in the Cape Karoo, found by a farm worker in her kitchen with a gaping wound which was bleeding copiously. Farmworker called the police from a neighbouring farm. On arrival, they found the victim dead. A hand axe covered with blood found on the scene. The suspect, a Black teenager, his clothes soaked in blood, was apprehended soon after, hiding near the farmstead. He was released on bail, 11.9.98. 
  
5.7.98. Johannes Hendrik Francois Robertze, 61, his wife, Janet, 50, and his brother-in-law, Willem Brits, 60, all shot dead on their farm Klipplaatdrif, Mpumalanga. A .303 rifle and bullets belong-ing to Mr Robertze were found in a Mercedes-Benz found abandoned about 12 km from the murder scene. The husband and wife were found dead in the farm kitchen. Mr Brits was found in the out side room, his hands tied behind his back. Suspects: two unknown Black men. 

 5.7.98. Mr Abraham Fourie, of the farm Coetzeerrust, Welkom, last seen alive at midday repairing a boundary fence. At 5.30 p.m. a farmworker found Mr Fourie dead in a labourer's cottage. The victim had a wire round his neck and had various chop wounds on the body. 
  
19.7.98. Mr Rautenbach, of the farm West Lisley, Underberg, overpowered by an unknown Black man who had gained entry into his home through a window. Victim hit over the head with a heavy blunt object and killed. Three firearms missing. 

24.7.98. Mr Philipus Greeff, 76, and his wife, Maretha, 72 both shot in the head on their farm Middlewater, in Hanover, Western Cape. The two suspects had been released early in accordance with Nelson Mandela's "birthday gift" amnesty to 9 000 prisoners. Killers fled in the Greeff's bakkie, which they overturned about 9 km from the farm. 

29.7.98. Mrs Elizabeth Radloff murdered on the family farm at Ficksburg when her husband, David, was called away to investigate a veld fire. On his return he found his wife's body about five metres from their home. She had been stabbed in the neck and stomach. A cross had been cut into her chest. Police arrested a 35-year old farm work 2 km from the home. He had earlier been in a dispute with Mr Radloff, who had tried to break up a quarrel between the man and his girl friend. 
  
30.7.98. Attackers targeted the farm Geluksrus in Mooi River, KZN, owned by Christoffel Buys, a member of a well-known Natal pioneering family, and his wife, Dinah, while they were entertaining dinner guests, Mr and Mrs Piet Erasmus, about 9 p.m. As they were sitting at the table a dining room window was shattered by gun fire. A Black man with a balaclava over his face appeared and fired several shots at Mrs Buys and Mr Erasmus. Mr Erasmus, 46, shot in the chest, died instantly. 
Mrs Buys was shot.in the head and died in an ambulance en route to hospital. The attacker forced Mrs Erasmus outside at gunpoint and stole her jewellery and car keys. Mr Buys, paralysed in a previous attack in 1996, fired shots at the attackers after which they set his car alight and fled. 

31.7.98. The body of Mr Thys van Huyssteen, 30, of the farm Welkom in Viljoenskroon in the Bloemfontein area, found by workers in his home. He had been shot in the head and neck. Three Black men arrested. 

1.8.98 Mrs Johanna van Wyk, 40, of the farm Bitterspoort in the Carnarvon area, Northern Cape, killed after being struck 017 the head with a heavy iron pot. 

 4.8.98. After a massive search, the bloodied body of Mr Andre Breytenbach, 60, chairman of the  local farmers union, discovered about 4 km from his homestead. He went missing from his Ruigtevlei farm near Louis Trichardt after taking his workers home to Botlokwa township. The killers apparently ambushed Mr Breytenbach when he climbed out of his vehicle to open his farm gate on his return. He was shot in the stomach before his body was dumped in the veld. His attackers fled in his white Isuzu bakkie, after placing the vehicle's registration plates at his head and feet. The bakkie was found about 20 km from the murder scene, almost totally burnt out, the police believed to destroy any clues. 
His rifle, 9 mm pistol and wrist watch were missing. Police offered a R50 000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killers. 

9.8.98. One of the most gruesome atrocities in SA criminal history occurred on the farm Boschrug near George in the Western Cape, after a hostage drama in which four people were butchered and set alight, one while still alive, and three others injured. What started off as a peaceful Sunday morning on Apple Grove Farm turned into a bloodbath when an armed Coloured man, believed to have been a former employee at Apple Grove, arrived at the farmhouse, surprising the middle-aged owners, Tommy and Ria Heathfield. They were attacked and taken hostage. Around 9.30 a.m. Isabel Lamprecht, her son Krisjan and friends Marchant Gerber and Andrew Reid arrived on the farm to accompany the Heathfields to church. The six were missed at the service and the minister, Pastor Solomon Raats of the Pentecostal Protestant Church, and Reid's father, Bobby, drove out to Apple Grove. The attacker was waiting for them. He leapt out of a side door, shouting: "Here are two more White people to shoot." He forced Reid into the farmhouse. Raats was ordered to return to town and fetch R3 000 in cash by 2 p.m. Instead, he alerted the police, who 
swung into action. A large police contingent was converging on the farm when the suspect spotted them. Using Isabel Lamprecht as a shield, he tried to make a break for it in the Heathfield's Volkswagen, with the police in hot pursuit. Mrs Lamprecht managed to jump out of the vehicle which suspect rolled before fleeing into the mountains. It was when the police entered the farmhouse that the full horror of the situation became apparent. Dead and dying were strewn all over the house. Ria Heathfield, Gerber and Andrew Reid were dead, their bodies torched. Bobby Reid had suffered serious head wounds and been set alight, but died later in hospital. Ria Heathfield had been stripped naked and been raped by the killer. Members of the ambulance service had to use fire ex-tinguishers to quench the flames around the bodies. Suspect later arrested at a road block. 
  
25.8.98. Mr Roelof Vermeulen of Plot 4, Randfontein, and his domestic servant attacked in the farmhouse by two armed Black men. Mr Vermeulen murdered, suspects try unsuccessfully to escape in his bakkie. They got away with a safe and R5 000 in cash. 

27.8.98. The body of Johannes Henry van Heerden, 67, found dead in his bed on the Nooit- 
gedacht farm at Kromdraai, near Witbank, with his hands and legs bound with telephone cord at about 7 a.m. He had been savagely beaten on the back of the head and socks had been stuffed in his mouth. His face was covered with a jersey. A widower, Mr van Heerden had apparently tried to alert his son, who lives on a neighbouring farm, using a two-way radio. The son went to his father's house, where he found the body. Mr van Heerden's bakkie was missing. Police said there was no sign of forced entry and his firearm was left lying on top of his wardrobe. Mr van Heerden had survived three previous farm attacks. Before that, he was assaulted in two attempted robberies.
 
27.8.98. Frederick Jabocus "Bokkie" Human, 46, of the farm Welgemoet in the Paterson area, Eastern Cape, killed by attackers posing as cattle buyers. They are thought to have tricked Mr Human into locking his dogs away minutes before the daytime attack. A domestic worker found his body still in the lounge chair after hearing the shots. Police said it appeared the attackers fled without taking anything when another farmer arrived almost immediately after the shooting. Mr Human was not married and lived alone. Bushmen and tracker dogs picked up the trail of the killers who were arrested in the Zuurberg Mountains. 

28.8.98. Mr Marius Louis du Preez, 36, who lived on a farm near Lothair, died after being shot in the back. Mr du Preez made a living by buying milk from farmers and reselling it. Police say that on the day of his murder he was selling milk in the village of Dundonald when three Black youths approached him from behind. Two witnesses saw one of the three fire shots at Mr du Preez, hitting him in the spine. They made off with his moonbag, which probably contained some cash and his firearm. He died instantly. While the police believed the motive for the attack was robbery, they were puzzled why the attackers did not take Mr du Preez's bakkie. "The only thing we can think of is that they did not drive." 

29.8.98. The entire Eastern Cape farming community was enraged at the murder of Mr George Wylie, 76, of the farm Upper Glenwyn, Grahamstown, while lying seriously ill in bed. A very respected member of the community, Mr Wylie was the oldest producer and distributor of dairy products in SA. About 3 p.m. on the day of the attack his son, Peter, who lives with his wife Gillian in a separate house on the farm, heard a muffled bang from his parent's home. As he approached a small Black man, "probably in his early twenties," came out, waving a gun and shouting "Money! Money!" 
He forced Peter into his own home and told him to open the gun safe. He was told to lie on the floor. A second assailant then entered. Peter was told to find money for the second robber. He found R220. While handing this to the man, he managed to press the panic button. The first robber, standing one metre away, immediately fired a shot from a 9 mm-pistol. "The bullet whizzed pastmy ear."The robbers fled in George Wylie's Volkswagen Fox, later found abandoned near Joza. Together with a security guard who had just arrived, Peter went to see his father. They found him on his bloodsoaked bed, shot just below the ribs but still alive. The guard administered first aid but Mr Wylie died soon afterward. He and his wife had lived on the farm for 50 years. Suspects took a R4 military assault rifle, a 7.65 mm pistol and a .22 revolver. 

30.8.98. A retired Spoornet official, Mr Andre Stander, 65, found murdered on his farmstead in Dyesseldorpontset, Oudtshoorn, Southern Cape, after being attacked by two intruders. He was stabbed in the left side of his body and battered round the face and head with a heavy object. 
When a neighbour, Neels Slabbert, arrived the killers fled. Mrs Annie Stander, 65, was in church at the time her husband was slain. 

4.9.98. John Jackson, 41, and his family attacked by five Black men soon after arriving at their Pongola farm, northern KwaZulu/Natal. The men leapt on Johnson. He was shot and stabbed to death while his wife sustained minor injuries. Their three children escaped physically unhurt. The suspects fled with Jackson's .38 revolver. 

5.9.98. Cecil Frauenstein, 58, a farmer in the Kidd's Beach area of the Eastern Capel hacked to death outside his home. Police said Mr Frauenstein went out in the early morning to milk his cows. 
An elderly farmworker who witnessed the attack said five Black men were involved, three of them armed with knives, one with a panga, the other with a firearm. "They stabbed and hacked and slashed the farmer repeatedly, after which they ran away." 

7.9.98. Mr L B Thorne, a company director living in the picturesque Plaston area outside Witrivier, brutally murdered on his smallholding. According to Inspector Okkie Brits, the investigatiIlg officer, Mr Theron, a part-time farmer and director of VGS Engineering, the attackers gained entrance by forcing the kitchen burglar proofing. They overpowered Thorne in the lounge where he had probably fallen asleep in front of the TV. A lattice-work gate in the passage which Throne usually locked when he went to bed, stood open. He was savagely beaten and chopped with various objects, then finally strangled with a belt. The injuries were so extensive that police could not immediately determine whether he had also been shot. According to Brits, Thorne was extremely security conscious and had installed electrified, strengthened burglar proofing over a security gate in the passage between the bedrooms; a front door which could be jammed with a crossbar on the inside, as well as owning six large dogs and a number of firearms. The attackers fled in Thorne's bakkie with an unknown number of weapons. The bakkie was found abandoned on Saturday in the Jerusalem Trust area, about 15 km from the property.