Amaminibync (Gość)
| | A private investigator who stepped in as police had no leads nearly three months after a Cullinan man was murdered in his home and his house burnt down, solved the case in days and charged just R10.
Darryl Els told the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday that on September 27, 2009, he was watching an episode of Carte Blanche on television.
He saw an insert about the murder of Piet van den Berg, who had been shot dead by robbers two days before his 64th birthday.
Van den BergĄŻs wife, Madeleine, 61, was locked in a cupboard in the bedroom and the intruders set the house alight.
Speaking outside the court on Tuesday, Els said that when he heard no arrests had been made, he decided to take over and charged the family, who had lost everything in the fire ¨C a mere R10 for investigating the case.
Van den Berg was shot dead in the passage of his home on July 11, 2009, as he took one of the robbers to the dining room to show him where a watch was.
His wife endured several hoursĄŻ torment, in which her hand was slashed with a knife and she was left for dead in a cupboard. |