Danish Citizen's Murder: Three found Guilty

[LazyLion]

The brother-in-law of an elderly Danish businessman who was murdered in Gordons Bay in January 2008 has been found guilty of his murder by the Western Cape High Court, Beeld reported.

Francis Kimeze, 37, was on Monday found guilty of the murder of Preben Povlsen, 71, while Povlsen's wife, Maria Povlsen, 34, and her sister, Stella Senegendo, 42, were found guilty of being accomplices to the crime.

The Povlsen couple lived alternately in Denmark and in Gordons Bay, the newspaper reported.

Stella lived with her son in a separate flatlet on the couple's property, and Kimeze did maintenance work there from time to time.

Judge Rosheni Allie found all three of the accused guilty of theft of the deceased's vehicle.

Povlsen's body was found in January 2008 in Bloubergstrand, six days after his murder.

Kimeze earlier told the court he had been smoking tik in Povlsen's garage when the Dane caught him.

An argument ensued, during which Kimeze stabbed Povlsen at least 48 times with a knife.

Sentencing proceedings are due to start on Wednesday.


Source : Sapa

 

[Ekstasis]

mercurial was suppose to start this thread...

 

[ponder]

Drugs are bad m'kay

 

[Alan]

Article from a few years back

Strand - A web of lies unravelled in the Strand Magistrate's Court on Tuesday during the bail application of the widow
of the murdered 71-year-old Preben Povlsen of Denmark. Jaws dropped when it appeared that 31-year-old Maria Povlsen was probably not the sister of her two co-accused. It appeared that Maria Povlsen was in fact pregnant in 1997 with the offspring of 35-year-old Francis Kimeze, the
man she and their co-accused Stella Senegendo, 39, described throughout as their brother. All three are from Uganda. Affair with bookstore owner Kimeze admitted that he had killed Polvsen because, according to him, they'd had an argument about maintenance
work that he did at Povlsen's home in Gordon's Bay. The Povlsen couple lived in turn in Farum, Denmark, and Gordon's Bay. Investigating officer Inspector Cobus Greeff said during the bail hearing of Povlsen and Senegendo that the full
names of Kimeze's parents appeared on his birth certificate. But Povlsen's maiden name, Bulamo, did not feature anywhere on it. However, he did not doubt that Senegendo and Kimeze were related. Maria Povlsen gave the police false information from the start, Greeff said in response to a question by the
prosecutor, advocate Greg Wolmarans. He also testified that she had had sexual relationship with a bookstore owner in Gordon's Bay. They spent a week together in Greece and he had a "secret room" with some of her clothes in his house. Blood found everywhere He saw her every day between January 8 and 18 this year, except on the January 14 (the day her husband
disappeared) and January 15. During this time they had sex three times. Greeff was in possession of seven love letters that she had posted to him from Denmark. In one, there was also a
request for money. Greeff also had reason to believe that Povlsen was not telling the truth about when she returned to South Africa. He again emphasised that Povlsen had been slowly tortured to death. "It was the worst murder I've ever investigated," said Greeff, who has 19 years' service. "It was a gruesome,
gruesome, gruesome murder." Apart from 40 stab wounds administered to Povlsen, his one ear had been cut off while he was still alive. A piece of
cloth was wrapped stiffly around his neck, which was broken. When his body was found six days after he had disappeared at Bloubergstrand, it was wrapped in a curtain and a
duvet cover. His hands and legs had been tied together, probably to move his body. Greef said the curtaining came from the Povlsen couple's main bedroom and the duvet was also from there. Blood splatters It was the same room in which traces of blood had been found, after an intensive search. The carpet had been replaced but according to Greef, a lot of effort had obviously been taken to soil and wash it in
turn, to make it appear older. The cupboard doors had been thoroughly scrubbed up to eye level. They only found blood on the bottom of the cupboards when they removed them. There were also blood splatters against the wall of the room. It was blood that "flew through the air," as result of a
kick or a blow. There was blood on the floor in the en suite bathroom. In the garage there was a great deal of blood. Wolmarans said both Povlsen and Senegendo stressed in their statements that the house had to be scrubbed often
because it was unusually damp. Greeff doubted this. At the request of the lawyer representing the two women, Zirk Mackay, the bail application
before Magistrate S Du Toit Malherbe was postponed for cross-examination until February 18.

 

[louisek]

Almost as good as OP

 

[Hemi300c]

Almost as good as OP

Actually better here we have a conviction!