Conman tracked down
2005-10-20
WITH his “wanted” photograph in the Paarl Post, it was risky for a young blonde suspect to show his face in town.
But his need to collect money overcame caution, and Henry van Neethling had himself driven to a client in Wemmershoek last week, crouching on the back seat of a car.
The woman, who had bought merchandise from van Neethling and expected him to collect his money on Wednesday afternoon, contacted the police when she realised the seller was the same man in the photograph in the newspaper.
Since the article dozens of his victims have come forward with accusations. The complaints were mainly with regards to building materials he had been paid for, but had never delivered.
There was also a man from whom he had hired a trailer for which R4000 is still owning, as well as a bakkie stolen from a resident of Klapmuts.
Van Neethling had been on the run from police for months. The owner of Denver Tractors in Paarl employed private detective Callie Rischbieter to assist the police in tracing the former employee who had allegedly defrauded his company of close to R100 000.
Rischbieter managed to track him to Gauteng in August last year, but he again disappeared.
At 17:30 on Wednesday, Rischbieter and Paarl detective Insp Auckland Losper lay in wait in Wemmershoek. Van Neethling is now
in custody.
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