A MAN accused of stealing a plasma TV was beaten and stripped naked at Kagiso Cemetery in Mogale City last Tuesday.
The dead silently witnessed the victim, who had been kidnapped, being brutally assaulted and left for dead.
His attackers drove off and left him behind. He managed to crawl to the street and stop a passing car, which took him to hospital where he spent four days receiving medical attention.
The four men suspected of beating him are behind bars at Kagiso Police Station facing charges of kidnapping and assault.
Police spokesman Captain Solomon Sibiya said the four, aged between 23 and 32, were arrested last Tuesday and appeared in court but have been denied bail.
Sibiya said the victim alleged he was at a friend’s house in Joshua Doore section of Kagiso when a group of six unknown men arrived in a minibus taxi.
The men assaulted him and forced him into their vehicle before driving to the cemetery, where he was stripped naked and repeatedly whipped and sjambokked.
