A Cape Town lawyer who was allegedly kidnapped on Friday, has been rescued by police after a successful manhunt.

 

A Cape Town lawyer who was allegedly kidnapped on Friday, has been rescued by police after a successful manhunt.

 According to Western Cape police spokesperson Warrant Officer Joseph Swartbooi the traumatised victim was found a day later in Klawer, about 300km from his Bellville home.

He added that the lawyer's wife reported her husband missing after he failed to return from work. Bellville detectives were deployed after consultation with the missing person's business associate and secretary and they visited the offices.

Swartbooi said, officers found the office was in "many ways disturbed" and certain items were missing. He added that they found a file on the desk which would be of vital importance in their investigation as it gave direct links to pursue.  

A manhunt was launched immediately I efforts to locate the missing person which the l3ed the police to the address of a woman in Yale Road, Behlar, who had visited the practice the previous day.

 According to a witnesses, who were questioned in the vicinity, placed the female at the crime scene when they confirmed that she was driving a white motor vehicle, believed to be the victim's motor vehicle, with an unknown man and two occupants.

The Klawer police spotted the vehicle at an address in their policing precinct and entered the house where they rescued the missing person who was traumatised.

Three people were arrested on a kidnapping charge which are two women and a man.

They are expected to appear in the Bellville Magistrate's Court soon.

Done by: Sibulele Stuurman