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08-06-2009, 04:12 AM #4581
08-06-2009, 04:13 AM #4582
08-06-2009, 04:15 AM #4583
Smit-moord: Twee verdagtes het glo al voorheen gedreig
Polokwane (Pietersburg). – Twee van die mans wat mnr. Gericke Smit glo hier vermoor het, het vantevore al gedreig om een van die gesinslede se vinger met ’n kantsnyer af te sny en hulle te beroof, het die landdroshof gister gehoor.
Mnr. Gerhardus van Zyl, ’n afgetrede polisiekaptein, het in die vermeende moordenaars se borgtogaansoek getuig ene Jerry, ’n medewerker van mnre. Terence Maredi en Jan Lamola, het dit aan hom vertel.
Maredi (25), Lamola (27) en mnr. Marius Mokgokong (23) beken skuld.
Mnr. Rampie Smit, die vermoorde se pa, het Van Zyl se hulp met die moord-ondersoek ingeroep.
Van Zyl het getuig Smit sr. het hom omstreeks 14:00 op 18 Julie gebel en gesê: “My kind is vermoor, hy lê in die agterste kamertjie en daar is bloed.”
Vroeër in Julie is die woorde “Smit se f**k”op ’n venster in die Rampie Smit-gebou waar die moord plaasgevind het, geskryf, het Van Zyl getuig.
Uit ’n onafhanklike nadoodse ondersoekverslag blyk Smit jr. (28) is 17 keer met ’n graaf oor sy kop geslaan en in sy gesig gekap.
Maredi het eergister getuig hy het Smit jr. twee keer met ’n graaf geslaan terwyl hy op die vloer gelê het.
Die nadoodse verslag van dr. Patricia Klepp, ’n forensiese patoloog van Johannesburg, bevestig 17 ernstige wonde.
Landdros Janine Ungerer sal môre uitspraak in die borgtogaansoek lewer.
08-06-2009, 04:17 AM #4584
Pa en dogter nie meer verdagtes in moordsaak
Polokwane (Pietersburg). – ’n Vrou en haar pa het vandeesweek vry uit die landdroshof hier gestap nadat hulle voorheen van die moord op haar man aangekla is.
Me. Sanet Bruton (31) en haar pa, mnr. Hermanus Phillipus Niemann (59), word nie meer van die moord op mnr. Wayne Bruton (29) verdink nie en alle aanklagte is teruggetrek.
Mnr. Solomon Shadung (28), ’n werknemer van mnr. Bruton, is nou die enigste oorblywende beskuldigde in die moordsaak. Hy het mev. Bruton en haar pa by die moord betrek.
Landdros Janine Ungerer het gesê Shadung word ook van menseroof en dwarsboming van die gereg aangekla. Hy is steeds in aanhouding.
Die direkteur van openbare vervolging moet nog bekend maak wanneer sy verhoor in die hooggeregshof sal begin.
Mnr. Bruton, eienaar van W&S Property Developers, het op 24 Junie 2008 verdwyn. Sy vrou het dié dag ’n SMS van hom gekry om te sê hy gaan vir ’n vergadering na Lebowakgomo.
Sy uitgebrande Kia-bakkie is die volgende dag verlate in die Chuenespoort-gebied, sowat 30 km suid van Polo-kwane, gekry. Sy skoene en selfoon was in die kajuit. ’n Uitgebreide landwye soektog na hom is begin.
Shadung is sowat twee weke later weens menseroof in hegtenis geneem. In Julie is mnr. Bruton se erg ontbinde lyk in ’n vlak graf by ’n huis in Seshego net buite Polokwane gevind.
Shadung het mev. Bruton en Niemann van die moord beskuldig en hulle is in hegtenis geneem dieselfde dag as wat mnr. Bruton se oorskot gekry is. Hulle is twee nagte in die polisieselle in die stad aangehou voordat hulle op borgtog van R3 000 elk vrygelaat is.
Mev. Bruton moes doktersbehandeling ondergaan weens die trauma van haar man se ontvoering, sy dood en haar aanhouding in die selle. Hulle was 11 jaar getroud. Rochelle, die jongste van hul drie kinders, was nog maar drie maande oud toe dit geblyk het haar pa is vermoor.
Die ouer kinders, Philip en Suzaan (toe 10 en 7 jaar oud), moes berading weens die trauma en skok kry.
Mev. Bruton het volgehou sy en haar pa het niks met die moord te doen nie. Die Bruton-familie het ook in haar onskuld geglo.
Mev. Bruton en haar kinders het intussen na Pretoria verhuis.
08-06-2009, 04:18 AM #4585
Olimpiese atleet kry borg ná ‘padwoede’
’n Olimpiese atleet wat vir die vermeende padwoede-dood van mnr. Neville Olivier aanspreeklik gehou word, is gister op R2 000 borgtog vrygelaat.
Ambrose Monye staan in die Pretoriase landdroshof tereg op aanklagte van strafbare manslag.
Mnr. Peter Jay, sy prokureur, het bevestig Ambrose het in 1988 Nigerië by die Olimpiese Spele in Suid-Korea verteenwoordig.
Monye het ook in 1993 silwer medaljes in die 400 m- en 400 m-hekkies verower by die Afrika-kampioenskap.
Adv. André Swanepoel, namens Monye, het vroeër aan die hof gesê sy kliënt moes homself op 24 Julie verdedig toe vier mans hom in ’n straat oorkant ’n winkelsentrum aangeval het.
Olivier het ná dié voorval aan sy wonde beswyk.
Mnr. Sipho Letsoalo, staatsaanklaer, het in die hof gesê Monye se adres is bevestig.
“Die beskuldigde het geen vorige veroordelings nie en ook geen uitstaande sake nie.”
Verder het die departement van binnelandse sake bevestig dat Monye ’n Suid-Afrikaanse burger is. Die staat het nie borgtog teengestaan nie.
Swanepoel het versoek dat sy kliënt se paspoort terugbesorg word om hom in staat te stel om geld by die bank te trek.
Letsoalo het beswaar gemaak en hulle het ooreengekom dat Monye sy paspoort by die ondersoekbeampte kan kry wanneer hy dit benodig.
Monye moet twee keer ’n week by die Brooklyn-polisiestasie aanmeld en mag geen kontak met die staatsgetuies hê nie.
Letsoalo het aan die hof gesê dat Monye wel nie vorige veroordelings het nie, maar dat twee strafsake (weens besit van dwelms en aanranding) teen hom voorheen teruggetrek is.
Mnr. Steven Olivier, die oorledene se broer, het ná die tyd aan Beeld gesê die familie is nie gelukkig met die verloop van sake nie.
Hy het gesê die familie het die private speurder mnr. Mike Bolhuis aangestel om hul eie ondersoek na die voorval te doen en seker te maak al die bewyse word voor die hof gebring wanneer die verhoor begin.
“Ons as ’n familie en die vriende wat betrokke is, sal enduit saamstaan,” het hy gesê.
Die saak is tot einde volgende maand uitgestel.
08-06-2009, 04:19 AM #4586
Gym manager’s ‘greedy’ killer jailed for life
ONE of the men who murdered former Health and Racquet Club manager Gregory Bowker-Joplin was sentenced in the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday to life imprisonment plus 15 years.
Handing down sentence to Siyabulela Dobe, 22, Judge Nambitha Dambuza said that due to the brutal manner in which Bowker-Joplin had been stabbed and the fact that Dobe and his partner, Mzwabantu Mhlaluka, had failed to show any remorse, their actions had to be met with the full force of the law.
Mhlaluka, 18, received the same sentence on June 22.
Dobe was arrested with Mhlaluka and Xolani Khave, 23, on January 4 last year. He was the only one on trial after Mhlaluka pleaded guilty and Khave turned State’s witness.
The court heard that Dobe had been raised in a financially secure and stable environment by his great-grandmother and later by his mother and stepfather.
“The accused (Dobe) was a taxi conductor at the time he committed the crime and was getting R150 a day for his work,” said Dambuza.
“The court feels the murder was completely senseless and that the accused and his partner, Mhlaluka, acted greedily.”
Bowker-Joplin was murdered after leaving his house in Lorraine to sell old clothes at a petrol station in Heugh Road on December 10, 2007.
During the trial, the court heard how Dobe and Mhlaluka – who robbed a Mount Pleasant home afterwards – stabbed him several times before shoving his body in the boot of his car and dumping it in the bushes in a secluded area.
Dambuza, adding the body was found weeks later, called the killing “cruel, painful and undignified”.
State advocate Hannelie Bakker said she thought the sentence was fair in light of the brutality of the murder. Bowker-Joplin’s wife, Marie – who learnt a year after her husband of 20 years had died that she had cancer – did not attend any of the trial proceedings because she did not want to know the details of how he had been murdered.
08-11-2009, 11:49 AM #4587
Biker’s death: shoddy police work slammed
ALMOST two years after her husband was killed in a motorcycle crash – allegedly by a drunk driver – a Port Elizabeth women fears his killer will never be brought to justice due to shoddy work by police and court officials.
Keen bike enthusiast Lesley de Lange, of Algoa Park, died in a motorcycle accident on his way to a breakfast run on December 9, 2007.
The driver of the car that hit De Lange, Benjamin Alsworth, was arrested and charged with culpable homicide and drunk-driving.
However, blood samples taken from Alsworth after the collision later leaked out of the container while the sample was en route to the police forensic lab, rendering this crucial evidence useless in court.
Then, last month, the family were told the case docket had gone missing from court. A police duplicate was so faint it was illegible and the most crucial statement incriminating the suspect was missing.
However, the case was saved by copies made by private detective Danny Vorster, who the family had hired to help with the investigation. He was able to give his copy to the prosecutor so the case could continue.
Vorster was also able to track down two witnesses and get statements from them, despite claims by police that the witnesses had refused to co-operate.
Vorster said both witnesses had signed affidavits saying Alsworth tried to flee the scene, but had been prevented from doing to by bystanders.
“Beside the possibility of corrupt officials frustrating the course of justice, I am concerned that certain basic investigation procedures were not properly carried out from the start,” Vorster said.
“I have registered my strong disapproval with the prosecuting authorities, who have promised to look into the matter.”
De Lange’s widow, Michelle, said the shocking lack of police efficiency had been compounded by the fact that her husband had survived a similar motorcycle accident in Pretoria in 2005, and had received equally incompetent police service.
In this case De Lange was hit by an allegedly drunk driver travelling at high speed. Although the driver was charged with reckless driving and driving under the influence, the case was withdrawn due to lack of evidence.
However, Vorster, who was also hired by the family for this case, managed to track down a witness in George, who gave a comprehensive statement on the incident. Tragically, De Lange was killed before this case could be finalised. “He (Alsworth) has taken away a husband and father,” an emotional Michelle said.
She has since remarried but said her daughters Angelique, 11, and Danielle, 12, still missed their father.
She said she was “fed up” with the judicial system. “We want closure and the court must decide whether he goes to jail or not. It appears there is no justice.
“The court can no longer use the blood samples which are said to have leaked out.
“The form (docket) was also incorrectly filled in when the accused was at the district surgeon to test for alcohol in his blood,” she said.
She added that De Lange’s sister, Anna-Marie van Niekerk, lived in the same road in Algoa Park as Alsworth, who constantly insinuated that he had been triumphant in the case and would not be prosecuted.
Van Niekerk said the family was angry and frustrated at the slow pace in finalising the matter. “I wish he (Alsworth) would come to say he is sorry of what he has done.”
Police spokesman Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg acknowledged that the case docket had gone missing, but said they would use duplicate copies.
When asked about the leaked blood sample and inability of police to get statements from crucial witnesses, she said: “We believe the investigating officer in the case is capable and we do not believe that she would mess up the investigation.”
She said Alsworth would appear in the Regional Court on August 21.
Vorster said, however, the case would be severely jeopardised by the poor police work. “The duplicate copies of the case docket were faint and illegible and the most crucial statement incriminating the suspect was missing from the docket. I had to take my own copies which I shared with the senior public prosecutor.”
He said that in a letter dated March 12, 2008, a Cape Town lab technician wrote to the commander based at Algoa Park emphasising that analysis of the blood sample was not possible in the matter because it had leaked out during transit.
“After I conducted my own investigation, I obtained two statements from people who witnessed the accident. This was after the police had said they (witnesses) refused to cooperate during their probe,” said Vorster.
He also claimed that his investigations had uncovered that the 2005 case had been withdrawn because the driver was related to a police official stationed at Hercules police station where the case was opened.
He said it was tragic that the family had to go through this kind of agony and frustration because of a failure of the justice system.
The law courts in Port Elizabeth are embroiled in controversy stemming from theft of case dockets.
Last month, a clerk working for the police based at the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court, Debbie Stolsie, her husband, Sean, and two co-accused, Garth du Preez and Henrich Swanepoel, were arrested for corruption involving theft of four dockets.
08-13-2009, 04:21 AM #4588
2de man vas ná egpaar se branddood
Durban. – ’n Tweede verdagte is gister in die Howick-omgewing aangekeer in verband met die moord op ’n pasgetroude paartjie wie se verkoolde lyke sowat twee maande gelede in ’n plantasie in die KwaZulu-Natalse Middellande gevind is.
Die arrestasie van ’n 24-jarige man kom nadat die polisie twee dae ná die moord op mnr. Alan O’Neale (57) en me. Hannetjie Blom (40) van Merrivale hul tuinier, mnr. Boy-boy Alfred Ntuli (23), in hegtenis geneem het.
Daar word vermoed die egpaar is uit wraak vermoor ná ’n uitval kort tevore.
Die paartjie is vermoedelik tuis oorval en verwurg voordat hul lyke na ’n bloekomplantasie naby die Beverley-gasteplaas by Dargle geneem en aan die brand gesteek is.
Die Jeep Cherokee van die ratkasonderneming waar O’Neale gewerk het, is die oggend toe die lyke ontdek is langs die N3-hoofweg gekry.
Die motor wat Blom gebruik het en wat aan ’n biltongwinkel behoort het, is die vorige nag op die pad van Dargle na Impendle gekry waar dit met ’n padteken gebots het.
Ntuli is in aanhouding en moet weer op 26 Augustus in die hof verskyn. Die tweede verdagte sal na verwagting eersdaags in die hof verskyn.
2nd man nabbed for murder
Johannesburg - A second man was arrested in Howick on Wednesday in connection with the murder of a couple whose bodies were found burnt on a farm in Dargle, KwaZulu-Natal police said.
Police spokesperson Henry Budhram said: "The suspect was arrested in the Howick area."
The first man, a 23-year-old, was arrested in June and was believed to have been employed by the couple as their gardener. He was still in custody.
The couple was identified as Alan O'Neale, 57, and Hannetjie Blom, 40.
The bodies of the married couple were discovered on Beverly farm in Dargle in June this year.
The couple was attacked at their home, strangled and their bodies were set alight. The motive initially appeared to be revenge, Budhram said.
08-13-2009, 04:23 AM #4589
Vrou tuis aangerand
’n Vrou is gisteroggend in haar slaap op ’n kleinhoewe naby die Kameeldrift-polisiekantoor, noordoos van Pretoria, oorval en byna doodgeslaan vir ’n selfoon en handsak sonder geld.
Mev. Essie Ferreira (55) woon in Spioenkopstraat in Kameeldrift, sowat 400 m van die polisiekantoor. Twee gewapende rowers het haar omstreeks 06:15 in haar bed in die hoofslaapkamer van die huis oorval kort nadat haar man, Jurie (58), die huis verlaat het om te gaan werk.
Mnr. Jurie Ferreira jr. het gesê sy ma is oral op haar lyf geskop, met vuiste geslaan en daar is ’n groot gat in haar kop, maar dat sy stabiel in die hospitaal is.
Konst. Portia Maleka, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê dit is onduidelik hoe die rowers by die huis ingekom het.
“Die rowers het haar beveel om stil te lê en om stil te bly. Daarna het hulle haar erg aangerand. Hulle het vir die kluis se sleutels gevra, maar sy het gesê daar is nie ’n kluis nie. Die rowers het toe net ’n selfoon en handsak gesteel en gevlug. Daar was geen geld in die handsak nie.”
Maleka het gesê niemand is nog in verband met die voorval in hegtenis geneem nie.
Die Kameeldrift-gebied was die afgelope paar jaar gereeld in die nuus weens ernstige misdaad. In Februarie vanjaar is mnr. Reinier Boshoff (67) voor sy vrou, Daphne, doodgeskiet tydens ’n gewapende rooftog op hul hoewe naby Kievits Kroon.
08-13-2009, 04:26 AM #4590
Buurmans hardloop 2 kapers in
Twee vermeende kapers is gister in Alberton aan die Oos-Rand deur bure van die slagoffer vasgetrek.
Die twee mans, albei in hul 20’s, het ’n vrou (53) in Vermeulenweg, Verwoerdpark, met ’n mes en ’n skroewedraaier probeer kaap. “Haar buurmans het haar hoor skree en nader gehardloop,” het kapt. Makana Raphulu, polisiewoordvoerder, gister gesê.
Volgens die polisie het die vermeende kapers dadelik probeer vlug, maar hulle is in ’n nabygeleë park aangekeer.
“Die buurmans het 500 m gehardloop om die twee mans in te hardloop. Hulle het die mes en skroewedraaier afgeneem en hulle gearresteer,” het Raphulu gesê.
Die verdagtes word by die Alberton-polisiekantoor aangehou.