WILLIAM GILBERT
On the 22nd of July 1985 a hippo came to our house, there was a shack at the back of my house, two policemen came to my yard, I was sitting on my veranda and they walked to the children at the backyard.  They went to the closed shack and asked who stayed there and the deceased answered saying that the person who stays there is at work. They wanted to know what was inside and my son then said he refuses to tell them.  They then took a hammer and said that they are not going to argue because P W Botha said that we must not argue with blacks but kill them like flies. I tried to talk to them and they left but they said they were coming back, they swore to come back.
 After a while they came back at about 12 o'clock. The children ran away and that is when he got shot.