{"id":1063,"date":"2007-11-08T13:57:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T13:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrikaansenuus.co.za\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2007-11-08T13:57:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T13:57:35","slug":"carjack-mum-feared-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"Carjack mum feared for life"},"content":{"rendered":"
A mother of three has been viciously assaulted in a third attempted carjacking by African youths.<\/p>\n

Lee Clayton, 51, who suffered facial injuries, bruising and lacerations, said she feared for her life.<\/p>\n

Ms Clayton had just left a friend’s house when two attackers tried to force her from her car at an intersection in Melton.<\/p>\n

They tried to wrench her from the driver’s seat and one punched her in the face before they fled.<\/p>\n

"I usually have the car doors locked, but this time I didn’t," Ms Clayton told the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n

"I stopped at an intersection, and I didn’t see anyone walking down a footpath … and they just came from nowhere.<\/p>\n

"They ran at my car and started banging on the windows and undid the driver’s side door and tried to get the car keys out of the ignition.<\/p>\n

"When I tried to fight them off one of them punched me, and I’ve got cuts and scratch marks on my arms where they tried to grab me."<\/p>\n

The attack happened about 1.20am on Tuesday, just minutes from Ms Clayton’s Melton home.<\/p>\n

Last Friday a gang of African youths tried to carjack two vehicles in Carlton. A female driver and her male passenger were showered in glass after the youths threw bricks through car’s windows.<\/p>\n

In the other attack, a car was set upon after a man pulled over to answer a mobile phone call.<\/p>\n

Ms Clayton said she would think twice about getting behind the wheel late at night again.<\/p>\n

"I thought that if they got me out of the car I was in big trouble.<\/p>\n

"The police have fingerprinted my car and it’s sitting in my driveway, but I don’t want to go near it, to tell you the truth.<\/p>\n

"You’d think you should be safe in your car to come home at any time. But apparently not these days."<\/p>\n

Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A mother of three has been viciously assaulted in a third attempted carjacking by African youths. Lee Clayton, 51, who suffered facial injuries, bruising and lacerations, said she feared for her life. Ms Clayton had just left a friend’s house when two attackers tried to force her from her car at an intersection in Melton. … Continue reading “Carjack mum feared for life”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[21098,427],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c51-international-news","tag-s19-english","tag-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}