Search still on for missing Cape doctor
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Police are continuing the search for missing Cape Town paediatric specialist and lecturer, Dr Louis Heyns who was last seen on Wednesday evening after visiting his brother in Somerset West.
Cape Town - Police are continuing the search for missing Cape Town paediatric specialist and lecturer Dr Louis Heyns, who was last seen on Wednesday evening after visiting his brother in Somerset West.
Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut said on Sunday that the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Heyns were being investigated and that he was still regarded as missing.
Heyns, 59, a lecturer at Stellenbosch University’s medicine faculty, left his brother’s home in Somerset West on Wednesday at about 8.20pm. He is believed to have gone missing on his way home to Welgelegen, in Parow.
His brother, Christo Heyns told a weekend newspaper that to go home, Heyns would have taken the N2, the R300 and then the N1.
His wife, Dalene Heyns, reported him missing when he hadn’t arrived home by midnight and didn’t reply to SMSes.
Laticia Pienaar, Tygerberg Hospital’s principal communications officer, said: “The hospital management is very concerned about Heyns’s disappearance. Our prayers are with the family and we hope he is found soon.”
Nana Rechner, director of The Pink Ladies, an organisation that helps find missing children, said: “We are doing everything that needs to be done to find him. Finding his car is vital.”
News about Heyns’s disappearance has been spread via social networks and flyers have been distributed along the route he is suspected to have travelled, said Rechner.
Heyns drove a dark grey Peugeot 308. His car registration is CY 121 038 He was wearing a black golf t-shirt, brown pants and grey jacket.
* Anyone with information should call Detective Warrant Officer Hannes Niemand at 021 850 1325/44, or Crime Stop on 08600 1011.
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Cape Argus
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