A South African man who faces charges of holding his wife and children captive at home slit his wrists after being denied bail.
The identity of the man is being withheld to protect his wife and children.
The 36 year old Businessman also faces charges relating to attempted murder, torture of his relatives who live in the Springs community.
The man kept his family locked up for several years and shocked his children with electric wires.
Angry local people took to the streets and demonstrated outside court demanding that the man be denied bail.
After slitting his wrists with a razor, the man was taken to hospital where he is now under police guard.
When police raided his house they discovered chains, blow torches, ropes and pornographic DVDs at the house when the man was apprehended.
Stranger than fiction the house was expensively furnished, but the children were often expected to sleep together on one dirty bed.
Graphic details of how the man imprisoned his own flesh and blood aged between 2 and 16 were presented to the Springs court.
The arrest came about when one of the children managed to escape after the father threatened to kill him, the neighbour informed a neighbour.
The man`s 11-year-old son explained how his father had strung him up by the wrists for two days using a rope and when he asked to be set free, his father used teargas on him.
Neighbours said they were not aware of the childrens` existence until the man was arrested last Tuesday.
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