Tazne Van Wyk’s.
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- Judgment of the person accused of murdering Tazne van Wyk, and abusing a few of his kin, will transfer into its third day on Wednesday.
- Choose Alan Maher has been summarising the proof forward of saying his resolution on whether or not the accused is responsible or not.
- He must resolve whether or not Tazne’s final evening was as a consequence of an evening from hell by the hands of thriller foreigners, or if the accused was the perpetrator.
The second day of judgment of the person accused of raping and murdering eight-year-old Cape City lady Tazne van Wyk ended on web page 90, with the choose reaching the arrest of the person suspected of abducting her.
Choose Alan Maher has spent the previous two days studying by way of the witness proof and forensic findings offered to him, together with having to go over the outcomes of the postmortem on her little physique once more.
When Tazne was murdered, and the accused was arrested, he ended up going through 27 fees after his relations broke their silence over alleged rapes and extreme bodily abuse.
Tazne’s mother and father had been in court docket once more on Tuesday, and this time her mom introduced a cuddly teddy. One of many accused’s kin was noticed, however saved a low profile.
Tazne disappeared on Friday, 7 February 2020, and her physique was discovered virtually two weeks later in a stormwater drain subsequent to the N1 close to Worcester.
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Her physique was so decomposed that her pubic space was lined in maggots, so a organic anthropologist needed to be referred to as in to testify whether or not she had been raped.
Her left hand was lacking and nonetheless is.
DNA was discovered below her little fingernails and was in contrast with a pattern taken from the accused. It was a match.
The accused says that Tazne scratched him when he desperately tried to carry on to her as a gaggle of individuals talking a international language held them in opposition to their will and wrenched her away from him someplace within the Karoo.
He had requested them to let her go, however, he claimed, it was all in useless.
He mentioned when she was taken, he was tied up with a shawl and will do nothing, however he mentioned he heard water. One of many thriller individuals (none has been positioned) returned with Tazne’s limp physique they usually drove out of the bushes, and left her someplace on the aspect of the N1.
Throughout the lockdown final 12 months, Tazne van Wyk’s mom, Carmen, visited the place the place Tazne’s physique was discovered outdoors Worcester. (Picture: Breyten Cupido/Archive)
He described a hellish afternoon which began with these thriller individuals stopping in a Siyaya taxi with pink on the aspect to ask for instructions as he left Elsie’s River in Cape City.
He mentioned Tazne appeared out of nowhere and obtained into the taxi once they provided cash for the instructions. They had been held on this taxi, which went to Worcester through a drug deal in Malawi Camp, and a cease in Paarl for fish takeaways. They had been lastly dropped off in Worcester alongside the N1.
He turned down the supply of lodging for the 2 of them for the evening, telling two good Samaritans he wanted to get “the kid” to her mom in Beaufort West.
Nonetheless, these mysterious individuals got here again in a unique automobile whereas they had been attempting to hitchhike. It was a Toyota bakkie, they usually pushed the 2 of them within the automobile, stopped in some bushes, took Tazne to the water, introduced her limp physique again, and put her subsequent to the N1.
He mentioned they booted him out of the automobile close to a roadblock on the outskirts of Bloemfontein a lot later.
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He claimed that he slept on the freeway that evening and headed again to Laingsburg.
He didn’t go to the police as soon as at Laingsburg, however he did go to a store to cost his cellphone. He sat within the bushes that afternoon.
“He by no means advised anybody what occurred as there was one thing flawed along with his head,” mentioned Maher in his abstract of what the accused testified. “Everyone would blame him. He began blaming himself. He didn’t know what to inform individuals.”
The accused has testified that one of many thriller individuals smoked from a packet of medicine they collected in Malawi Camp proper subsequent to him behind the bakkie, and it made him really feel excessive.
He was arrested in Cradock on 17 February and didn’t inform the police about his and Tazne’s ordeal. He didn’t like the best way the police had been treating him.
“How can I communicate to such individuals?” quoted Maher from the accused’s testimony.
The accused denies all 27 fees put to him, together with absconding from parole. On that cost he mentioned he went to inform the parole officer he was leaving city, however the workplace was closed.
Judgment is predicted to be handed down on Wednesday.
Originally published at Irvine News HQ
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