grieving Hanover Park residents came out in their numbers yesterday to clean up the garbage-ridden field close to Crystal Senior Secondary School where the body of murdered 17-year-old Jehaan Petersen was found on Sunday, in the hope of preventing the same fate befalling another victim.
Community member Rushana Taliep said, “This was not the first body that was found on this field, the area is used as a playground for crime in the neighbourhood because of the appalling state it’s in with the sky-high weeds, condoms, clothing, plastic, tyres and even car glass strewn about,
“We wanted to clean it up so that all could see over the area better, it’s a hiding place for gangsterism, robberies, rape and all the other bad activities that are rife in the neighbourhood.…