Twenty years ago, 46-yr-old Neil McKay, a rancher in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa was shot through the spine by thieves and left paralysed.
Last week, Mr McKay suffered a second vicious attack. This time he wasn’t so “lucky”. Mr McKay was found by his mother when she arrived on her son’s farm to check in on him. She found her son tied up in his wheelchair, strangled to death.
According to the DailyMail, police investigators said he had been strangled by his captors, who were hiding close to the property, waiting for Neil to be alone.
Alf Lees the Democratic Alliance MP for Uthukela constituency said: ‘Who would murder a man in a wheelchair? A man who was unarmed and physically unable to defend himself?
‘Neil was a gentle and friendly man of peace who refused to carry or have a gun despite living on a farm where his late father made it possible for him to work from a wheelchair.
‘It seems his attackers were keeping watch on the farm and attacked the defenceless Neil when his farm manager and staff had left and he was alone for the evening.
‘First, they cleaned out the safe then they apparently dragged Neil to his bedroom where they brutally strangled him to death having tied him up despite being in a wheelchair.
His death has upset the people living in the town of Winterton in KwaZulu-Natal province, especially as his attackers were not captured after the first attack.
Tell us your thoughts in the Facebook post and share this with your friends.