Free State granny tricks drunk house robber to escape brutal attack After a six-hour ordeal, 84-year-old Nonnie van Rensburg managed to lock her attacker in her bathroom and escape Nonnie van Rensburg said the attacker repeatedly beat her before tying her up. Stock photo. Image: 123RF / Rafaelbenari
Begging for mercy, an 84-year-old Free State pensioner conned a house robber, who had held her captive for six hours, into loosening the ropes he had tied her up with.
“I didn’t know what else to do. I told him my hand was going to fall off. I think because he was drunk he believed me,” Nonnie van Rensburg told TimesLIVE.