Children plead for help in finding abducted parents

THE family of a Nottingham Road couple who were abducted from their home during a robbery on Friday, have made a desperate appeal to help find their father, Roger.

Roger and Christine Solik were taken from their home on the Midlands estate, The Bend, during a home invasion in the early hours of Friday morning.

Christine’s body was found, bound and beaten, in a river in the lower Lotheni area of Impendle later that day.

The Soliks’ four children said they were contacted by police on Friday, who told them there had been a robbery at their family home at the Bend Country Estate and that their mother had been found in a river, murdered, about 70 km away from the house.

The children said their father, who is fighting against Parkinson’s disease will become totally dysfunctional within 48 hours if he does not have his daily medication.

They thanked the Nottingham Road police, Pietermaritzburg K9 Search and Rescue, as well as the Hawks, Nottingham Road Land Owners Association, and various other organisations for their role, in searching for their father.

KwaZuluNatal police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane said the couple’s disappearance was first noticed when a concerned neighbour entered the house and found everything upside down, with blood stains around the Soliks’ home.

The neighbour immediately called the police and a case of house robbery and kidnapping was opened at the Nottingham Road police station.