Jacobus Lodewikus Martinson

Jacobus "Koos" Martinson (1915 - 2005)

Brief overview:

Koos (90), was bludgeoned to death on a Hallgate smallholding on 29th October 2005. Martinson, whose hands and feet were tied with telephone cables and a belt, had plastic and a sheet wrapped around his bloodied head. He apparently died as a result of a severe assault with a blunt object.

A domestic worker found his injured, traumatised wife Judith Martinson (87) at about 14:00 on Tuesday. She was tied to the body of her dead husband in a bedroom in their house for 19 hours. Mrs Martinson was admitted to Suikerbosrand Hospital in Heidelberg with multiple injuries, none of them serious.

Captain “JP” Botha, a member of the unit against serious and violent crime, earlier said on Tuesday afternoon that some of the family’s belongings – a microwave oven, jewellery, crockery and other appliances – had been picked up outside the house. A safe containing a number of firearms was untouched.

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
• Funeral/Memorial
• The Farm/Smallholding
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)

Attack Details:

• Date and time of attack
• Weapons
• Items Stolen
• Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
• Torture, Gratuitous violence
• Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.

Perpetrator details:

• Number and Descriptions
• Arrests
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction

Additional Biographical Information:

• Official cause of death : Unnatural causes

Links to Media articles:

• http://archive.fo/l63vp
• https://www.yumpu.com/nl/document/read/4451339/laai-af-die-lys-van-...
• https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000194583550821

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• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Sep 6 2019, 20:01:41 UTC
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Martinson-293