Image:Nothing could prepare Detective Warrant Officer Delene Grobler-Koonin’s family for March 5, the day she didn’t return home from work.
Grobler-Koonin was attached to the Hawks. Before joining the unit she worked, for more than a decade, in the family violence, child protection and sexual offences division.She was a true champion of children and women,” said Koonin. “I ask myself if [criminals] ever stop and think they could be denying a child a chance to grow up with their parent? Do they ever think of the consequences of their actions? That they are taking away loved ones from their families,” she said.Adding to Koonin’s pain was the death of Warrant Officer Wynand Herbst, 41, who worked with Grobler-Koonin. “He was shot on the same day Delene was killed and he died in hospital.