Monday, July 23, 2007

Handicapped man found

By Rhodé Marshall
23 July 2007

A 19-year-old mentally handicapped man who went missing from his home in Gugulethu has been found.

Lionel Gqosha, was last seen Tuesday, July 10, wearing black shorts, a white t-shirt, he is light of complexion.

“A man phoned to say he saw Lionel on a train to Cape Town station, where he got off and walked an unfamiliar direction,” says the man's brother Matthew Gqosha.

"Lionel can't speak and we were extremely concerned as he is on medication," says Gqosha.

However this was not the first time he has gone missing. The last two incidences he was found in Malmesbury and the other in Somerset West. Both times he took the train there.

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