The burnt body of a suspected drug addict was found in a car in Lotus River during the early hours of Wednesday morning.
City Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson, Jermaine Carelse, says firefighters received the call for help at 4.55am of a dwelling alight in Henley Road but found a car on fire when they arrived.
“A search of the vehicle led to the discovery of the body of an adult male. The fire was extinguished at 5.35am. The scene was handed over to the SAPS.”
According to a police source, the house is owned by a relative of the Six Bobs gang boss and is used as a pella pos to sell and smoke drugs.
Grassy Park SAPS commander, Colonel Dawood Laing, says officers were called to the scene where the body was found inside the Toyota Corolla parked outside a known drug outlet.
“The occupants of the house told officers that the man who has died is Jacques ‘Whitey’ Baxton, 34, and that he was sleeping on the backseat of the car,” he says.
“It is unknown how the fire started and this is now under investigation.”
Laing says cops have arrested the dead man before for drug possession and have often searched the house for drugs.
He says officers have opened an inquest docket for investigation.
“The victim is not from Cape Town, he came to Lotus from George but he was living at that house and sleeping in the car.”