UCT student fakes own kidnapping
By Khanyisa Tabata
19 November 2009
A University of Cape Town student who last month claimed she had been kidnapped and held random, has been arrested and charged for making a false statement.
Twenty-three-year-old Sharon Kaufmann allegedly faked her own kidnapping.
She informed her friends by a text message that the “kidnappers” wanted a 50-thousand-Rands ransom for her safe return.
Her friends reported the incident to the Rondebosch Police. But the student returned the same day to say that she had managed to escape and was somewhere in Kempton Park.
Kaufmann has appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday and her case was postponed for the 17th of next month.
The police’s Angie Latchman says police investigations are continuing.
19 November 2009
A University of Cape Town student who last month claimed she had been kidnapped and held random, has been arrested and charged for making a false statement.
Twenty-three-year-old Sharon Kaufmann allegedly faked her own kidnapping.
She informed her friends by a text message that the “kidnappers” wanted a 50-thousand-Rands ransom for her safe return.
Her friends reported the incident to the Rondebosch Police. But the student returned the same day to say that she had managed to escape and was somewhere in Kempton Park.
Kaufmann has appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday and her case was postponed for the 17th of next month.
The police’s Angie Latchman says police investigations are continuing.
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