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A Milnerton police officer testified in the trial of four people accused of killing a Cape Town pensioner.
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The fast action of three van-loads of police officers who raced from Joe Slovo to Tijgerhof led to the arrest of three men and a woman on the scene of a robbery and murder.
It took just over five minutes to get there, but 79-year-old Peter O'Rourke was barely alive, with tape wound around his head, blocking his airways, and a rag stuffed in his mouth.
They may even have prevented a second murder by arriving so quickly, tactically switching their siren off on their approach, while O'Rourke's wife Dorothy stood inside the house not knowing what was happening to her husband in the garage.
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