Source: http://www.newspaperupdate.com/british-husband-left-dead-wife-killed-south-african-robbers/


A British woman has been horrifically murdered and her husband left for dead within an attack called'pure and hateful and pointless torture.

The couple were asleep during sex on the farm in South Africa when three men broke in via a window at 2am and tied the terrified Brits up.

The gang, who struck at their property in Dullstroom in Mpualanga province, refused to trust Sue Howarth, 64, and husband Robert Lynn, 66, did not need a safe.

The pair were tangled up and attacked with a blowtorch, screaming for help while the men burned them with the weapon at their remote farm 150 miles from Pretoria.


lose friend Claire Taylor invited local paper the Middleburg Observer into the hospital to photograph Sue in bed to show the full horror of what local farmers are going through.

Police said the couple were put via a horrific ordeal lasting many hours, in which they were savagely beaten around the top and burned again and again before they were later both shot.

Eventually the three men bundled the married couple to their own pickup, with plastic bags over their heads and tape around their necks.

They were driven off before Sue was shot twice in the top and Robert in the neck, while the thugs dumped the couple by the roadside to die on a mountain pass.

Sue had a plastic bag jammed down her throat and Robert had a bag tied round his neck to strangle him. But retired Robert survived the brutal attack and were able to free himself and find his terribly injured wife nearby.

Police said she was unrecognisable from her injuries and was in a coma. Her husband raised the alarm she was rushed to hospital but died 48 hours later.
She'd multiple fractures to her her skull and gunshot wounds and horrific burns from the blowtorch to her breasts.

It is thought her life support machine was turned off on Tuesday morning, after doctors said her horrific injuries weren't survivable.
Her husband was treated in the intensive care unit but incredibly has survived and has returned home.
It had been the next violent farm attack in the province this month.