Gunmen rob Lee-Ann, kids

15 April 2015 - 08:50 By Poppy Louw

The men who held up model Lee-Ann Liebenberg and her family pointed guns at her children as they accosted them in the driveway of their Sandton home. "We were just followed home from Hyde Park shopping centre and held up in our driveway by three armed men MERC Benz BM 49PW," she tweeted yesterday.The family was celebrating daughter Gabriella's first birthday.Though shaken, Liebenberg was grateful they were unharmed.No case had been opened with police, Alexandra police spokesman Warrant Officer Manare Ramotshela said.Liebenberg's husband, Nicky van der Walt, was hijacked in the driveway of their home in 2011...

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