Speaking for the first time, Kar Hao Teoh's family tells how he was shot dead in South Africa.
Kar Hao Teoh, who lived in Bishop's Stortford, was on a two-week "trip of a lifetime" with his mother, wife and two-year-old son when he was fatally shot in front of themA British surgeon killed in South Africa was directed by police towards the violent protest in which he was shot dead, his family has claimed.
Sara said: "The police made a point to knock on our window to tell us which way to go. I thought, 'Oh, he's a very considerate policeman.'"The family told how they were directed into Nyanga, one of Cape Town's oldest black townships and, until recently, considered the murder capital of South Africa. Mr Teoh's mother tried to take control of the steering wheel in a desperate bid to prevent them crashing.Another motorist, who had also been directed into Nyanga, approached, telling Sara he had seen the shooter and wanted to help but feared he would be arrested.The eyewitness was one of those helped the car come to a stop next to a petrol station, just by a police station.
"The windscreen was cracked with holes. I thought it was obvious that we were in desperate need of help," she said.Ainah claims officers just "walked away, and continued chatting amongst themselves".It took an hour for an ambulance to arrive at the scene, by which time Mr Teoh was dead."They dismissed us and they said that we could come to identify his body at the morgue the next day," said Sara.
Col Andrè Traut, provincial commander for media communication in the Western Cape, said the murder was under investigation.
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