Winter break-ins at Muizenberg Beach huts

A RECENT break-in at a Muizenberg Beach hut has added to a string of similar incidents this winter.

- ERIN CARELSE

In the early hours of Saturday, a couple from Rocklands, Mitchell's Plain, reportedly broke into one of the huts after unsuccessfully trying to force open another.

According to Angela Gorman, chair of the Friends of the Muizenberg Huts, the pair smashed a door and lock before finding one they could break through.

They were discovered the next morning sleeping beneath a plastic sheet.

A case was then opened at Muizenberg SAPS.

“They had a backpack with them, which police later found to contain a large knife and drugs,” Gorman said.

“The woman claimed a private security guard at The Empire had told them they could sleep in the huts.”