Six robbed in Beetham hold-ups hours apart

Shane Su­perville 

Two sep­a­rate rob­beries took place on the Beetham High­way on Wednes­day, with six peo­ple tar­get­ed with­in a span of four hours.

In the first in­ci­dent around 6 p.m., two men, aged 21 and 22, were dri­ving along the high­way when they stopped near the John John Fly­over to as­sist a mo­torist whose car had bro­ken down.

As they ap­proached the ve­hi­cle, they were con­front­ed by eight men who de­mand­ed their be­long­ings. One of the at­tack­ers struck the 21-year-old in the head and chest be­fore steal­ing his cell­phone and Crocs. The 22-year-old was robbed of his car and $100, and the man with the dis­abled car was al­so robbed of a cell­phone. The group of at­tack­ers es­caped in the stolen car and had not been held up to Thurs­day morn­ing.

Lat­er that night, at about 10:30 p.m., a man and a woman were trav­el­ling west in a blue Kia Rio when they stopped to fix a tyre near the WASA pipelines.

They were ac­cost­ed by six ban­dits, one armed with a gun, who robbed them of two cell­phones, an en­gage­ment ring, and a wal­let be­fore flee­ing in­to the Beetham.

Both in­ci­dents are be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed by Besson Street po­lice.