Cape petrol station killers ‘may have underestimated police response time’

09 April 2019 - 09:00
By TANYA FARBER
The driver of this blue BMW was shot dead at point blank range at a fuel station in Kenilworth, Cape Town, on Saturday night April 6, 2019
Image: Western Cape Gang Watch web page The driver of this blue BMW was shot dead at point blank range at a fuel station in Kenilworth, Cape Town, on Saturday night April 6, 2019

Perpetrators of a gruesome execution at a Cape Town southern suburbs petrol station may have underestimated the quick police deployment in the area compared with the Cape Flats.

This is according to Delano van der Linde, a criminology expert who recently completed a doctorate at Stellenbosch University in how legislation could be amended to give the law teeth in fighting gangsters.