Vanessa Adriaanse, a 46-year-old woman from Grassy Park, Cape Town, is weighing her options after she was allegedly manhandled and, to her mind, wrongfully arrested by police inside her home last Saturday afternoon.
She also claims that while being booked at the police station, she witnessed police officers talking about dividing illicit cigarettes up among themselves that they had confiscated earlier in the day.
The comment was apparently rooted in Adriaanse’s frustration at falling victim to many burglaries and petty thefts at her house in recent years. These crimes have apparently gone unsolved by police. Adriaanse was angry and scolded the police when they tried to handcuff her. She says they grabbed her and hustled her towards a police van.
While at the station, she says, a police officer walked into the room with one full carton and six loose boxes of cigarettes. He put the cigarettes on a table and said to his colleagues that they would divide them up later. Adriaanse took this to mean the police intended to keep the cigarettes for themselves instead of booking them in as evidence. She recognised the cigarettes as the same ones that had been confiscated from the shop, she says.
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