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03-14-2008, 11:45 PM #2261
Street found guilty on all charges
Former bouncer Jonathan Street was convicted of murder and attempted murder by the Johannesburg High Court on Friday.
He is to be sentenced on March 26.
Judge Nico Coetzee found that Street shot and killed 18-year-old Kyle Norris in the Max-X club in Edenvale on the East Rand on November 19, 2006.
Street told the court earlier in his trial that he went to the Max-X club with his brother and friends.
He said he paid to have sex with a woman at the club and left. When his brother and friends did not join him, Street said he went to look for them.
He told the court that as he went back inside the club he found his brother and friends being attacked by a group of men.
He testified that he had to shoot Norris in self defence but that he had "no intention of killing anyone".
Street was also found guilty of charges relating to an incident before he killed Norris.
Street was convicted on charges of assault to cause grievous bodily harm and of discharging a firearm in public during an altercation with bouncers at a Bedfordview restaurant earlier that night.
Street was refused entry because he was not wearing appropriate attire. Despite this Street entered but was pushed back by a bouncer.
Street told the court that he pushed the bouncer because the man "pushed him first".
He then punched one of the other bouncers in the neck and told his friends they must leave.
When they left the restaurant Street fired two shots, which he argued he did to warn off the bouncers.
"I was trying to prevent a fight," said Street during his testimony.
03-14-2008, 11:54 PM #2262
Body of KZN man found
The 25-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man who went missing on Sunday after watching the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour with his family has been found dead in Athlone.
Police have been hesitant to confirm that the body found with several head wounds in Bokmakierie on Monday is that of Allan Espitalier of Amanzimtoti.
But his distraught family has confirmed the death and the dead man's father, Terry Espitalier, is travelling to Cape Town to claim the body.
Espitalier's mother, Lynn Espitalier, told the Cape Argus earlier this week that the last time she had seen her son was on Sunday at about 6pm when he left her waiting for Terry at the finish line of the cycle race.
Early today, a sobbing Lynn Espitalier confirmed that the body was that of her son.
She said Allan had not known anybody in Cape Town and was puzzled at how he had managed to get to Athlone.
She said he did not carry a lot of cash and the only item of value on him was his watch.
"What I don't understand is why they had to kill him," she asked.
03-17-2008, 02:52 AM #2263
Moord op bejaarde egpaar skok
SOMERSET-WES. – ’n Geel polisielint wat die boomryke oprit van Rupertstraat 25, Heldervue, afsper, was gister op die oog af die enigste teken van die dubbele moord op ’n bejaarde egpaar wat hier gebly het.
Mev. Anita Joubert (75) se liggaam is gister omstreeks 12:00 in die hoofslaapkamer deur die polisie ontdek.
Haar man, Stefan (77), is in die aangrensende badkamer gevind. Hy het nog gelewe, maar het sowat twee uur later in die Vergelegen Medi-Clinic aan sy wonde beswyk.
Volgens insp. André Traut, ’n polisiewoordvoerder, is albei slagoffers vermoedelik met ’n stomp voorwerp oor die kop geslaan.
’n Susterskind het glo die egpaar gisteroggend probeer bel. Nadat sy geen antwoord gekry het nie, het sy bekommerd geraak en die polisie ontbied.
Volgens ’n polisielid op die toneel was dié familielid gistermiddag nog te getraumatiseer om enige verdere inligting te verskaf.
Volgens Traut is die motief vir die moorde vermoedelik huisbraak.
Elektroniese toebehore soos dele van ’n hoëtroustel wat op mekaar gestapel was, is in die huis gevind.
“Dit wil voorkom of die verdagte of verdagtes sonder hul buit op die vlug geslaan het,” het Traut gesê.
Die skuifdeure van die huis is volgens Traut oop gevind. “Dit lyk nie asof die deure oopgeforseer is nie, maar om ’n skuifdeur oop te maak, veral as dit nie van goeie gehalte is nie, is maklik.”
Met Die Burger se aankoms op die toneel was forensiese deskundiges nog besig om die huis te fynkam. Familielede het buitekant heen en weer in die straat gestap. Hulle wou egter nie een met die media praat nie.
Verbygangers was geskok om van die moorde te hoor. Een vrou het genoem dat dit die eerste moord in 27 jaar in dié gebied is.
Die egpaar het glo geen kinders gehad nie en het alleen in die huis gewoon.
Geen verdagte(s) is tot dusver in hegtenis geneem nie.
Indien enigiemand inligting oor dié voorval kan gee, kan Stop Misdaad by 08600 10111 gebel word.
. ’n Groep kinders het gistermiddag ’n gru-vonds gemaak toe hulle op die lyk van ’n onbekende vrou op ’n oop stuk grond afgekom het, berig Nurene Jassiem.
Volgens Traut is die vrou, vermoedelik tussen die ouderdom van 40 en 50 jaar, se lyk by Baardskeerdersbos, sowat 20 km van Gansbaai af, gevind.
Die slagoffer is vermoedelik doodgeslaan.
03-17-2008, 02:54 AM #2264
Drie vandag voor oor Scholtz-dood
PORT ELIZABETH. – Presies ’n jaar en vier dae nadat ’n jong Baaise sakeman spoorloos verdwyn het, gaan sy vermeende moordenaars uiteindelik vandag moet begin verduidelik wat op daardie tragiese dag gebeur het.
Die moordsaak van mnr. Dieter Scholtz (31), ’n geoktrooieerde rekenmeester en sakeman, begin vandag in die Baaise hooggeregshof.
Mnre. Jared Blignaut (24), Chuma Maloyi (24) en Vusumzi Ncama (26) staan tereg op aanklagte van onder meer moord met voorbedagte rade nadat Scholtz op 13 Maart verlede jaar verdwyn het.
Scholtz het dié aand by ’n vriendin in Humewood gaan kuier. Sy is die laaste geliefde wat hom ooit weer gesien het.
Nadat hy by die vriendin weg is, het hy by die Loaded-sportkroeg in Noordeinde huurgeld by Blignaut gaan invorder. Hierna sou hy by ’n vriend in Lorraine gaan eet het. Hy het egter nooit daar opgedaag nie.
Scholtz het wel ’n SMS-boodskap aan dié vriend gestuur, maar dit is ook dié boodskap wat die vriend en familielede van Scholtz onraad laat vermoed het.
Die boodskap was in Engels en Scholtz het altyd Afrikaans met die vriend gepraat.
Selfoonrekords het getoon die boodskap is van Schoenmakerskop gestuur.
Toe daar die volgende middag nog geen teken van hom was nie, het sy ouers, mnr. William en mev. Leonie Scholtz, hom by die Walmer-polisiekantoor as vermis aangemeld.
Scholtz se silwer Audi A3 is twee dae ná sy verdwyning in Malabar opgespoor.
Die polisie het ook agtergekom geld is uit sy bankrekening onttrek.
Daar was aanvanklik vier verdagtes, maar die saak teen mnr. Mpumulelo Keyi (46) is verlede jaar teruggetrek.
Die drie het aanvanklik op aanklag van menseroof in die hof verskyn, maar die aanklag is later tot dié van moord verander.
Hoewel Scholtz se liggaam tot vandag toe nie opgespoor kon word nie, het die polisie glo genoeg bewyse dat hy wel vermoor is.
Dit het tydens een van die verdagtes se borgtogaansoek aan die lig gekom dat die staat gaan aanvoer die beskuldigdes het die liggaam in ’n 205 liter-drom verbrand.
Die nag van 13 Maart het ’n sekerheidswag glo gekla oor ’n slegte reuk en vlamme afkomstig van Blignaut se kroeg. Blignaut het glo vir die wag gesê hy was besig om vrot koedoevleis te verbrand.
Die polisie het video-opnames wat wys hoe Blignaut op die aand van die voorval verskeie kere vuuraanstekers met sy blou-groen Nissan Sentra na die kroeg aangery het.
03-17-2008, 03:02 AM #2265
03-17-2008, 03:14 AM #2266
Moord op egpaar skok rustige buurt
Die vreedsame woonbuurt van Waterval Estate, naby Northcliff in Johannesburg, is die naweek geruk deur die moord op ’n egpaar.
Volgens insp. Lorraine van Emmerik, polisiewoordvoerder, is die man en vrou se lyke omstreeks 01:00 gisteroggend in die sitkamer van hul huis in Bothalaan gevind.
’n Vrou wat agter in die erf in ’n woonstel bly, het omstreeks 23:00 skote in die huis gehoor.
Sy het na die buurman oorkant die straat gehardloop, omdat sy te bang was om in die huis te gaan.
Die buurman het die polisie en ADT-veiligheidsdienste ontbied, wat die lyke gevind het.
Volgens mnr. Mark Stokoe, woordvoerder van Netcare 911, was albei mense reeds dood toe nooddienspersoneel by die toneel opgedaag het.
Die man se hande en voete was vasgebind en sy lyk vol bloed.
Die vrou het vooroor oor die rugleuning van ’n bank gelê.
Van Emmerik sê die polisie vermoed roof is die oorsaak, aangesien verskeie waardevolle items uit die huis vermis word.
Ooggetuies het glo gesien hoe twee mans omstreeks 20:00 Vrydagaand by die huis ingegaan en net ná die skietery van die toneel gevlug het.
Die name van die oorledenes kan nie bekend gemaak word nie omdat al hul naasbestaandes nog nie in kennis gestel is nie.
Die moorde word ondersoek.
03-18-2008, 04:03 AM #2267
Rattray's killers get life
Pietermaritzburg - The noble ideas of internationally known historian David Rattray were destroyed by six armed robbers who went to his famous Fugitives Drift Lodge, shot him dead and took nothing.
This was said on Monday by Judge Kate Pillay in Pietermaritzburg High Court when she jailed two of the gang to life for Rattray's murder and ten years for the attempted robbery of Rattray and his receptionist.
The accused, Simphiwe Ndlovu, 25, and Sibonela Mponza, 28, pleaded not guilty to the crimes.
She said that the mere presence of the armed gang had aroused fear. Rattray had said to the gunmen, "Don't shoot."
There was no justification for killing him as they were in sufficient numbers to render him immobile.
They showed a total lack of remorse.
Three other members of the gang were earlier jailed for 25 years.
The difference between them and Ndlovu and Mponza was that Ndlovu and Mponza had shown no remorse whereas the others had done so by pleading guilty, the judge said.
A building contractor had told the court that Rattray had insisted he employ locals or their families when building at the lodge. This increased the revenue for locals.
Rattray had brought many international and local tourists to the area and gave employment and sustenance to local people, the court heard.
03-18-2008, 04:10 AM #2268
Airport gangs 'target' arrivals
Johannesburg - According to the American Embassy, 14 Americans in the past 12 months have been robbed at gunpoint after landing at the OR Tambo international airport in Kempton Park, Beeld newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Airport staff involved
"They are free to warn their citizens but we want proof of these allegations. ... Our investigations have shown that these are nothing more than allegations," Naidoo told Beeld.
It was reported on Tuesday that three Vietnamese men have become the latest victims of robbers who follow tourists from the OR Tambo International Airport and attack them.
Three men were accosted when they got to a house in Brooklyn, Pretoria, from the airport at 19:50 on Monday, said Captain Colette Weilbach.
03-18-2008, 04:13 AM #2269
Man assassinated in SA
Pretoria - Hours after a man arrived in South Africa from London he was "assassinated" with a single shot to the heart and burnt in his rented Mercedes-Benz in Atteridgeville, Pretoria.
Spencer Stewart, 37, who had worked for a property company in London, had entered South Africa without his family's knowledge on March 3.
The secrecy surrounding his entry into the country and the way in which he died have convinced his family that he was assassinated.
"The fact that his damaged diving equipment, diving watch, gun and parts of his burnt-out cellphone were found in his car indicate that it wasn't a robbery or a hijacking," said his sister, Nicola Stewart, on Monday.
She said the post-mortem had shown he had been shot in the heart.
Went to friend in rented car
"We're waiting only for the results from his dental chart to confirm 100% that it is him."
Nicola said her brother had landed at 07:00 and had gone to a friend in Pretoria in a rented car.
"Not even his girlfriend, who is also overseas, knew he was coming to South Africa."
Nicola said her brother left his friend at 15.00 to meet someone.
"He didn't tell his friend where he was going or whom he was going to meet.
"At 19:45 his friend sent him an SMS to hear how his meeting was going and Spencer let him know that it was okay."
Nicola said police found her brother's remains in the burnt-out car at 20:00.
They traced the car to Avis and Avis then traced Spencer's family.
"We couldn't believe that he was in the country and when we phoned his friend, he confirmed it."
Nicola and her father, Richard, went to where her brother had died the next day to investigate for themselves.
"Something was seriously wrong.
"His girlfriend said Spencer had been very tense lately and he had said he had things to sort out."
Spencer had been living on the West Rand up until last year and then went to London.
Late last year, he went to Egypt to go diving and then he went to London where he got a job.
Police were going through his cellphone records and had discovered that he had made only two calls and sent two SMSs to his friend's phone and his friend to him.
There were however other calls which he had received that day and which police were following up.
03-18-2008, 04:17 AM #2270
Man in hart geskiet, in gehuurde kar verbrand
Ure nadat ’n man van Londen in Suid-Afrika aangekom het, is hy in ’n “sluipmoordaanval” met ’n enkele skoot in die hart geskiet en in sy gehuurde Mercedes-Benz in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, verbrand.
Mnr. Spencer Stewart (37), wat vir ’n eiendomsmaatskappy in Londen gewerk het, het sonder sy familie se wete die land op 3 Maart binnegekom.
Die geheimhouding waaronder hy in die land gekom het en hoe hy dood is, het nou sy familie oortuig dat hy in ’n sluipmoordaanval vermoor is.
“Die feit dat sy beskadigde duiktoerusting, duikhorlosie, vuurwapen en dele van sy uitgebrande selfoon in sy motor gevind is, toon dat dit nie ’n roof of kaping was nie,” het me. Nicola Stewart, sy suster, gister gesê.
Sy het gesê die nadoodse ondersoek het getoon dat hy in die hart geskiet is. “Ons wag nog net vir die uitslae van sy tande om 100% te bevestig dat dit hy is.”
Stewart het gesê haar broer het om 07:00 die oggend geland en is in ’n gehuurde motor na ’n vriend in Pretoria.
“Nie eens sy vriendin, wat ook oorsee is, het geweet hy kom Suid-Afrika toe nie.”
Stewart het gesê haar broer is om 15:00 by sy vriend weg om iemand vir ’n afspraak te gaan ontmoet. “Hy het glad nie vir sy vriend gesê wie hy gaan ontmoet of waar nie. Om 19:45 het sy vriend vir hom ’n SMS gestuur om te hoor hoe dit met die afspraak gaan en Spencer het hom laat weet dit is oukei.”
Stewart het gesê die polisie het om 20:00 op haar broer se oorskot in die uitgebrande motor afgekom. “Hulle het die motor na Avis nagespoor en Avis het toe Stewart se familie opgespoor.
“Ons kon nie glo hy is in die land nie en toe ons sy vriend bel, het hy dit bevestig.”
Sy en haar pa, Richard, is die volgende dag na die plek waar haar broer gesterf het om self ondersoek te gaan instel.
“Iets was ernstig verkeerd. Sy vriendin het gesê hy was die afgelope tyd baie gespanne en hy het gesê hy het goed om uit te sorteer.”
Spencer het tot verlede jaar nog aan die Wes-Rand gewoon en is daarna Londen toe. Laat verlede jaar is hy na Egipte om te gaan duik, waarna hy Londen toe is waar hy ’n werk gekry het.
Die polisie is intussen besig om sy selfoonrekords na te gaan en het reeds ontdek dat hy net twee oproepe en twee SMS’e na sy vriend se foon gestuur het en sy vriend vir hom. Daar is egter ander oproepe wat hy daardie dag ontvang het, wat die polisie opvolg.