Walsh Martin Joseph

Age 67. Martin Joseph Walsh, a 77-year-old male was murdered on 12 December 2000. He was returning to his home at Farm Ingwelala, situated on Steynshoop in Hekpoort, when attackers ambushed him at his farm gate. The attackers blocked his path by placing a large rock in the road, overpowered him when he stopped, tied him up, and stabbed him to death. Five years later, his wife Ruth Walsh was murdered nearly five years later on 2 August 2005. She had continued living alone on the Hekpoort holding following her husband's death. Attackers breached her home and beat her to death with a pick handle.