A 71-year-old Jeffreys Bay man, Thomas Frederick Dreyer, committed suicide after murdering his girlfriend, 56-year-old Rachel van Niekerk. Eastern Cape police said on Monday that Van Niekerk’s neighbours heard several shots around 8.30pm on Sunday. They saw Dreyer leaving the house just a few minutes later, Kleynhans said. When police arrived on the scene, they found Van Niekerk lying in the kitchen with three to four gunshot wounds in her chest. They immediately went to Dreyer’s house and upon arrival heard a shot. Dreyer was found with a single bullet wound to the head and the gun still in his hand. He was admitted to the Humansdorp Hospital where he died in the early hours of Monday morning. – Sapa