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02-22-2008, 01:50 AM #2151
Jeppestown confession under the microscope
In the four years Mothilall Bissessar has been a magistrate, more than a dozen people have walked into his office to make a confession.
Each time, after he has explained their rights to them, they have walked out without confessing - all except Mary Maleke.
Bissessar, a magistrate at the Roodepoort magistrate's court, was on Thursday testifying in the Johannesburg high court in a trial within a trial over the admissibility of the confession that Maleke made shortly after her arrest.
Maleke, the only woman standing trial in the "Jeppestown massacre" case, was arrested two months after the bloody gunfight in which four police officers were killed.
She is now trying to get the confession that she made to Bissessar on September 6, 2006, thrown out of court.
She was arrested on September 5, 2006, along with her boyfriend and fellow accused Senzo Mweli, who is also contesting the admissibility of his confession.
Bissessar, a former criminal attorney, told the court that he always tried to get people wanting to confess to understand that they had the right not to make a confession and the right to an attorney.
He said more than 15 people had been brought to him over the years to confess and only Maleke went through with the confession.
Maleke's lawyer, Gail Sidwell, is challenging the confession on the basis that Maleke did not understand because the interpreter who translated for the magistrate spoke to her in Setswana, while her first language was Sesotho.
Also called to the stand was Adrea Davie, another Roodepoort magistrate, who took the confession of Mweli.
The State believes that Maleke and Mweli were part of the conspiracy to rob the Honeydew Pick 'n Pay and that Maleke, who worked at the supermarket, was the mastermind.
02-22-2008, 07:53 AM #2152
Matric's naked body found
Johannesburg - The naked body of a matric girl, who had been missing for two days, has been found with a bullet wound in the head on a Tarlton smallholding where she was a boarder.
Cassandré van Rooyen, 17, a matric pupil at Bekker High School near Magaliesburg, had been missing since Monday.
André Snyman, creator of e-blockwatch, said they had immediately launched a search after one of their members had reported Cassandré missing.
Her body was discovered at 22:00 on Wednesday on a smallholding in Tarlton, north-west of Krugersdorp. She was boarding there with Carl Maree and his children.
Her body was found behind a concrete dam, just 40m from her bedroom.
Police spokesperson Solly Sibiya said on Thursday they suspected she had been murdered elsewhere and that her body had been thrown next to the dam later.
"This was because a police dog unit and the flying squad had been searching for her on and around the smallholding since Monday, and had not found anything. On Wednesday night, a child found her body, said Sibiya.
He said the shot had been into the top of her head.
Maree was bitterly upset on Thursday. He said police had accused his son, Ken, 18, of killing Cassandré.
Ken cried as he told his story.
"The police threatened to slap me in the face and to knock my ears off if I didn't tell the truth.
"They said they were going to arrest me even if I wasted their time. I did not kill Cass. We had been friends for three or four years.
"I don't know what to do. I just want to cry."
Ken's mother, Merle Herbst, said she had been shocked at the way police had treated her son.
Theo Scholtz, headmaster of Bekker High, said the whole school was shocked by Cassandré's murder.
"She was a wonderful, pleasant child, petite and pretty. She had just been selected for the school's hockey first team and had been chosen as the cheerleader."
Wanted to be architect
The school's head girl, Bronwyn Tucker, who was one of the last people to see Cassandré alive, said they had fetched their new sports clothes together on Monday afternoon.
"She was lovely and her own person. She wanted to become an architect and said she'd like to design the president's house one day."
Cassandré's mother, Maria van Rooyen of Johannesburg, was too shocked and traumatised on Thursday to discuss her daughter's murder
Two males are now in custody
02-23-2008, 01:25 AM #2153
Seun beroof deur twee in bakkie
’ n14-jarige seun van Randparkrif, Randburg, is erg getraumatiseer nadat ’n onbekende paartjie hom eergister eers deur die venster van hul bewegende motor gegryp, beroof en toe in die pad laat val het.
’n Barmhartige Samaritaan het tot die Randpark High-leerling se redding gekom nadat ander motoriste net verby hom gery het waar hy hulpeloos in die pad gelê het.
Die seun, Darren (wie se ouers nie sy van bekend wil maak nie), is gister uit die Wilgeheuwel-hospitaal ontslaan met beserings aan 60% van sy liggaam.
Hy het onder meer ’n skeurwond op sy kop en ’n buitebandmerk aan sy sy.
Darren was ná skool op pad huis toe, toe die paartjie in ’n blou Nissan-bakkie hom begin agtervolg het.
Volgens sy ma, Jo-Ann, het hy aanvanklik saam met ’n groep ander leerlinge geloop, maar het hy alleen in Dale Lace-laan afgestap.
“Van wat ek af kan aflei, het die bakkie agter hom gery, en toe hulle langs hom kom, het die vrou hom van agter af deur die venster probeer gryp,” het Jo-Ann vertel.
“Sy wou hom deur die venster trek, maar hy het hom teëgesit en teruggebaklei en geskop.”
Die vrou het Darren glo met haar een arm vasgehou terwyl die motor nog beweeg het en met haar ander arm in sy skoolsak gekrap.
Sy het ’n onbekende bedrag geld en sy selfoon gevat.
“Ons is nie seker wat presies daarna gebeur het nie, maar hulle het hom daarna net laat val. Hulle het hom letterlik net in die pad laat val terwyl hulle weggery het.”
Mnr. Mark Berry, ook van Randparkrif, het op daardie oomblik uit Tiptolstraat in Dale Lace-laan ingedraai toe hy sien hoe Darren amper onder die bakkie val.
“Ek het die bakkie sowat 200 m voor my gesien en eers gedink dis iemand wat langs die bakkie speel. Maar dis toe dat ek sien hoe die seun op en af geruk word,” het Berry gesê.
“Sy voete was letterlik op en af van die grond en op een punt was sy skouer ook op die grond.
“Ek was so geskok en het nie eens die registrasienommer afgeneem nie. Ek wens nou ek kon meer gedoen het.”
Volgens Berry het hy gesien hoe die seun amper onder die voertuig inval en gou uit die pad moes rol.
Hy het by hom stilgehou, sy skoen en sokkie gaan optel en hom dadelik huis toe gevat.
“Voordat ek gestop het, het ’n ander motor voor my net verby hom gery. ’n Munisipale voertuig met sowat tien werkers het oorkant die pad gestaan.
“Hulle het alles gesien, maar niemand het probeer help nie.”
Volgens Jo-Ann het Darren reeds met berading begin en was die skool, hospitaal en polisie baie hulpvaardig.
Insp. Karen Jacobs, polisiewoordvoerder, het gister bevestig dat ’n roofsaak by die Honeydew-polisiestasie geopen is.
Enigiemand met inligting kan die Honeydew-polisiestasie bel by 0 011 801 8400.
02-23-2008, 01:30 AM #2154
15-jarige ook betrek
Krugersdorp. – ’n 15-jarige seun wat die vermoorde Cassandré van Rooyen se selfoon geantwoord het toe haar skoolhoof na haar gesoek het, het die polisie op die moordverdagtes se spoor gesit.
Twee jong mans van ’n kleinhoewe buite dié dorp is eergisteraand in verband met die verdwyning van en moord op dié 17-jarige matriekleerling van die Hoërskool Bekker in Magaliesburg aan die Wes-Rand deur die polisie vir ondervraging weggeneem.
Cassandré se lyk is Woensdagaand op die Garlic Growers-kleinhoewe gevind agter ’n betondam wat vir besproeiing gebruik word.
Mnr. Theo Scholtz, skoolhoof, het Cassandré Dinsdagoggend op haar selfoon gebel om uit te vind waarom sy nog nie by die skool is nie.
’n Vyftienjarige seun het haar selfoon geantwoord, het mnr. André Snyman, stigter van eblockwatch, ’n teenmisdaadnetwerk, gister gesê.
Beeld verneem dié seun het gesê hy kan nie nou met Scholtz praat nie, “want daar’s probleme by die huis”.
Cassandré het by mnr. Carl Maree, eienaar van Garlic Growers-kleinhoewe, en sy gesin geloseer.
Maree se seun Ken (18) en ’n ander 15-jarige, wat nie familie van die Maree-gesin is nie, is teen gisteraand steeds oor die moord ondervra.
Dié twee was glo Maandag omstreeks 19:00 besig om aandete te maak.
Hulle het toe ontdek dat Cassandré nie in haar slaapkamer is nie.
Sy het vroeër dieselfde dag haar huiswerk in haar slaapkamer gedoen.
Maree sr. en sy jonger seun, JD (ook 15), het glo van ’n gimnasium af teruggekom toe hulle hoor Cassandré het verdwyn.
Maree sr. het haar dieselfde aand by die Krugersdorp-polisiekantoor as vermis aangemeld.
Maree jr. het etlike ure voordat hy vir ondervraging ingeneem is, aan Beeld gesê: “Ek het nie vir Cass doodgemaak nie.”
Dít nadat hy glo toe reeds deur die polisie gekonfronteer is.
Vier polisiehonde is gister ingespan om op die hoewe na die moordwapen te soek.
Die honde het ’n hoed met bloedspatsels daarop in plante naby die huis gevind.
Die soektog na “ ’n klein vuurwapen” is gister laat gestaak, nadat twee polisieduikers die swembad en die beton- en visdam gefynkam het.
Maree sr. het gister in opdrag van sy prokureur geweier om met die media te praat, terwyl hy persfotograwe buite sy sakeperseel gevra het om dié gebied te verlaat “oor dié storie die onderneming reeds genoeg skade aangerig het”.
Die 15-jarige seun wat ondervra is, is gister na ’n plek van veiligheid geneem.
“Die twee is nog nie amptelik aangekla nie,” is al wat kapt. Solomon Sibiya, polisiewoordvoerder, wou laat blyk.
Dit het gister aan die lig gekom dat Cassandré se lyk geklee was en nie naak nie, soos wat die polisie vroeër laat blyk het.
Mnr. Boet Jordaan, Cassandré se stief-pa, het kort nadat hy verneem het dat Cassandré vermis is, van KwaZulu-Natal af na Gauteng gekom.
“Cassandré het al haar klere aangehad. Ek was daar,” het hy daaroor gesê.
Jordaan wou nie kommentaar lewer nie op ’n gerug dat jaloesie moontlik ’n rol in haar moord kon gespeel het.
Cassandré was ’n geruime tyd in ’n verhouding met ’n 19-jarige man, wat tot dusver net as Ian bekend is.
Cassandré se ma, me. Maria Jordaan, en die 19-jarige mansvriend word albei medies behandel vir skok.
02-23-2008, 01:36 AM #2155
Man (57) by oord vermoor
’n Man (57) is eergister in raaiselagtige omstandighede by die Inchanga Ranch-ontspanningsoord, naby Fourways, vermoor.
Volgens insp. Balan Muthan van die polisie is mnr. William Bywater omstreeks 22:00 een keer in die kop en een keer in die bors geskiet.
Mnr. Nick Dollman, Netcare 911-woordvoerder, het gesê Bywater was al dood by hul aankoms. Dit het gelyk asof sowat ses skote afgevuur is.
“Die motief vir die moord is nog duister omdat die oorledene R900 by hom gehad het én sy selfoon op die toneel gevind is. Dit blyk nie asof enigiets gesteel is nie,” het Muthan gesê. Die polisie was teen laat gister nog besig om vas te stel waar hy vandaan kom. Hy is nie ’n buitelandse toeris nie.
Bywater het glo alleen hier tuisgegaan. Muthan kon nie sê wanneer hy veronderstel was om te vertrek nie. Daar was geen tekens van ’n inbraak nie.
Niemand is nog in hegtenis geneem nie, maar ’n taakspan van Douglasdale-polisie is besig om die saak te ondersoek.
Inchanga Ranch kon nie teen druktyd vir kommentaar bereik word nie.
02-23-2008, 01:49 AM #2156
'Nobody did anything to help'
Johannesburg - A 14-year-old boy from Randburg is badly traumatised after an unknown couple attacked him as he came home from school on Friday.
The boy was grabbed by the couple, who tried to pull him into their moving car, robbed him and then dropped him in the road.
A Good Samaritan came to the boy's aid after other motorists just drove past, leaving him lying helplessly in the road.
The boy, called Darren (his parents don't want to reveal his surname), was on Friday released from hospital with injuries to 60% of his body.
Darren was on his way home when the couple in the blue Nissan bakkie started following him. According to his mother Jo-Ann, he initially walked with another group of pupils, but then continued on alone.
"From what I can gather, the bakkie continued driving behind him and when they were next to him, the woman started pulling at him from behind."
"She wanted to pull him in through the window, but he started fighting back."
The woman apparently held Darren with one arm while searching through his schoolbag with the other, all while the car was still moving.
She took money and his cellphone.
"We aren't sure what exactly happened afterwards, but they then just dropped him. They literally let him fall into the road while they drove off."
Motorist Mark Berry was driving along, turning into the road where the incident was taking place and saw how Darren nearly fell underneath the bakkie. "I saw the bakkie about 200m in front of me and at first thought it was someone playing next to the bakkie. But then I saw how the boy was being jerked up and down."
"His feet were literally on and off the ground and at one point his shoulder was also against the road. I was so shocked and could not even take the registration number. I now wish I could have done more."
Berry said he saw how the boy almost fell under the car and quickly had to roll out of the way.
He stopped next to him, picked up his shoe and sock and immediately took him home.
"Before I stopped, another car in front of me just drove past. A municipal truck with about ten workers stood across the road. They saw everything but nobody did a thing to help".
According to his mother, Darren had already started with counselling.
Police spokesperson inspector Karen Jacobs confirmed that a robbery charge had been laid at Honeydew Police Station.
Anyone with information was asked to call police on 011-801-8400.
02-23-2008, 01:53 AM #2157
Cape Town - A fed-up crime victim plans to sue Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula for a "significant amount" in the Pretoria High Court in March.
"I've had enough. I'm a little bull terrier. I'm there to say that the government must do something," Byron Gerber said on Friday.
Gerber said he spent three months in intensive care in Wilgeheuwel Hospital after being shot twice in the arm, right lung, kidney and liver by robbers in a Johannesburg security complex in 2005.
His hospital bills amounted to R1.6m.
Gerber said the police were denying South Africans their constitutional right to safety and security and freedom from "all forms of violence".
"Many citizens including myself are being denied this right by being imprisoned in our own homes or on the streets due to criminal elements targeting innocent people in the most violent crime waves," he said.
A lot of people wrote petitions, "jump up and down", but do nothing about it, he said.
Gerber was critical of the police bungling in his case. Although the police took pictures of the crime scene at his home, his friends eventually found the bullet with which he was shot and took it to the Muldersdrift police. They lost it.
The inspector tasked with handling his case was sick and died during the investigation. It was never continued.
He said "nothing was done" after several calls were made on his cellphone which the robbers stole from him, using another sim card.
A court date would be set down early in March.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Safety and Security Trevor Bloem said he was not aware of the case.
"You do have these cases from time to time," he said.
02-25-2008, 01:32 AM #2158
Zimbabwean held for CT murder
Cape Town - A 25-year-old Zimbabwean man was arrested in connection with the murder of a 60-year-old Green Point man, Western Cape police said on Sunday.
Spokesperson Bernadine Steyn said the body of 60-year-old Neill Gibbon was found by his sister around noon on Saturday in his apartment on Hill Road in Green Point.
Gibbon had sustained an open wound to his neck. Police found no sign of forced entry.
Steyn said Gibbon's Mercedes-Benz, which was missing from his home, was later found outside a hardware store in Mitchell's Plain.
Police arrested the 25-year-old man from Harare, in Zimbabwe, when he returned to the car around 15:00.
The man was expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Monday on a charge of murder, Steyn said.
02-25-2008, 01:47 AM #2159
Cassandré: twee aangekla
Die twee tieners wat Vrydag in verband met 17-jarige Cassandré van Rooyen se moord ondervra is, is eergister amptelik van haar moord aangekla.
Een van die aangeklaagdes is mnr. Ken Maree (18), by wie se gesin Cassandré sedert die begin van die jaar op hul kleinhoewe buite Krugersdorp, Johannesburg, loseer het.
Die ander verdagte is ’n 16-jarige seun.
Cassandré is verlede Maandag as vermis aangemeld en haar lyk is Woensdagaand op die Garlic Growers-kleinhoewe in Tarlton agter ’n sementdam gevind.
Maree het verlede week voor sy ondervraging aan Beeld gesê: “Ek het nie vir Cass doodgemaak nie.”
Die twee sal vandag ’n aanklag van moord in die Krugersdorp-landdroshof verskyn.
Volgens kapt Solomon Sibiya, polisiewoordvoerder, is die twee Vrydag en Saterdag as deel van die polisie se ondersoek intensief ondervra. Hulle is tans nog die enigste verdagtes.
“Dit het tyd gevat, maar ons het hulle laat gister (Saterdag) amptelik aangekla nadat ons hulle positief aan die moord gekoppel het,” het Sibiya gesê.
Mnr. Carl Maree, Ken se pa en eienaar van die kleinhoewe, het haar Maandagaand as vermis aangemeld. Sy is Woensdagaand omstreeks 22:00 met ’n enkele koeëlwond in die kop gekry.
Volgens Sibiya is die moordwapen nog nie opgespoor nie en wag hulle nou op die ballistiese toetse se uitslae vir verdere leidrade.
Die 16-jarige seun word tans in ’n plek van veiligheid en Maree by die Krugersdorp-gevangenis aangehou.
Mnr. Boet Jordaan, Cassandré se stiefpa, het gister aan Beeld gesê dat dit nog sleg gaan met die familie, maar dat hulle bly is oor die arrestasies.
Jordaan, Cassandré se ma, Maria en haar broer, Anthony, bly in Alberton. “Ek het nou net (gister) die goeie nuus (dat die verdagtes aangekla is) oor die radio gehoor,” het Jordaan gesê.
“Ek is bly dat hulle nou die skuldiges aangekeer het, want nou kan my vrou en kind rus. Nou wil ons net weet hoekom dit gebeur het.”
Volgens mnr. Theo Scholtz, hoof van Hoërskool Bekker, het Cassandré tot einde verlede jaar in die koshuis gebly, voordat sy by die Marees loseer het.
“Ons kan nie seker wees hoekom sy besluit het om die koshuis te verlaat nie. Dit kan dalk wees om nader aan haar kêrel (wat verlede jaar gematrikuleer het) te wees of oor finansies. Ons is nie seker nie,” het Scholtz gesê.
02-25-2008, 05:56 AM #2160
Gesin gee pad uit huis ná 4 se aanval
Malalane. – Dit was ’n bloedige naweek in die Laeveld nadat minstens vyf mense, insluitend drie rowers, in twee afsonderlike skietvoorvalle gewond is.
’n Kuiertjie saam met vriende het Vrydagaand vir die Muller-familie van die plaas Bahudi sowat 2 km buite dié dorp in ’n nagmerrie ontaard toe hulle deur vier gewapende rowers aangeval is.
Mnr. Org Muller (76) word in die waakeenheid van Nelspruit Medi-Clinic behandel nadat hy tydens die aanval op die rowers gevuur en daarna self in die maag geskiet is.
“My gesin is só getraumatiseerd ná die aanval dat ons Sondagaand in ’n hotel in Nelspruit deurgebring het,” sê mnr. George Muller (40), Org se seun.
Muller jr. sê hy en sy pa was omstreeks 21:00 besig om vleis te braai terwyl sy gesin en vriende rugby gekyk het.
“Die volgende oomblik het die vier aanvallers uit die donker te voorskyn gekom en sonder om ’n woord te sê, op ons begin skiet.”
Terwyl hy sy familie in die huis laat wegkruip het, het Muller sr. op die rowers geskiet.
“Een van hulle het omgeswaai en na Pa geskiet. Hy is in die maag getref.”
In die oor-en-weer-skietery is een van die gaste, mnr. Henko Celliers, ook in die arm gewond.
Die rowers het gevlug. Sowat 45 minute later is twee verdagtes op die N4 deur die polisie opgespoor.
Albei was gewond.
Die polisie het vasgestel die twee verdagtes is Mosambiekers.
In nóg ’n voorval is ’n inbreker in ’n bedenklike toestand in die Themba-hospitaal nadat hy eergisternag minstens nege keer in die Uitsig Landgoed buite Nelspruit raak geskiet is.