A motorist passing the Western Cape High Court said she was horrified to see a man assault a parking marshall.
|||Cape Town - A motorist passing the Western Cape High Court on Friday said she was horrified to see a man assault a parking marshall.
Jamiela Kasper said she had been driving past the court when she saw the unknown man shouting at the parking marshall before smacking her “violently”.
Kasper photographed the attack on the woman on her cellphone.
“His anger had escalated to a point where he just hit her, repeatedly,” said Kasper yesterday.
“He saw me stopping to lift up my phone to take pictures and he stopped. He walked away but she still wanted her money.”
Kasper said the marshall followed the man to demand the parking money.
“He smacked her again, more violently this time. Other people jumped in to help the lady. Another man, I think he was a lawyer, stopped the man and helped (the marshall) gather her things.
“I’m planning on going to see her again to check if she was not badly injured because I couldn’t stop for long as I was holding up traffic.”
She said before she left, she was told by passersby that the man would be held until the police arrived.
She was unsure whether the police had been notified of the incident.
Police spokesman Colonel Andrè Traut could not say whether the man had been arrested, saying he required more information relating to the incident.
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Cape Times