The robbery had been recorded on a concealed security camera.
While local people recognised that such brutality was undesirable, in the context of rampant armed robbery and police corruption, it was better than the alternatives.
As a result of the introduction of community policing, fear of crime (especially armed robbery) fell from 68% to 48%.
Most of the material came from skeletonized mummies, which had been damaged by grave robberies so that the skeletal elements were identifiable.
They were particularly agitated by high incidence of armed robbery in their towns of residence.
