Farm murder: 10 suspects acquitted

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Bloemfontein - Ten people accused of murder after a 2009 farm attack in the Free State were acquitted by the Regional Court in Ficksburg on Wednesday.

"The criminal justice system failed the complainants in the case," regional magistrate Ollie Koekemoer said in his judgment, in which he criticised poor police work.

The ten people, eight men and two women, were acquitted of two charges of attempted murder and three of robbery with aggravating circumstances.

At the time, police said a group of robbers had overpowered a domestic worker and taken her cellphone at gunpoint.

They then went into the farmhouse where they found a disabled woman, Nellie Jansen van Rensburg, 53, and her 77-year-old mother.

The women were tied up with telephone cables.

Police said the elderly woman was assaulted with a gun and sustained chest and facial injuries.

Jansen van Rensburg was pistol-whipped in the face. She died soon after the attack.

Couldn't care less

The robbers stole firearms and cellphones before fleeing.

Delivering judgment, Koekemoer described the police investigation into the matter as superficial, inaccurate and "traak-my-nie-agtig" (could not care less).

Koekemoer said it would have been an easy case if the evidence had been handled properly. He said the firearms seized from the accused were never sent for fingerprint testing.

One of the firearms, which apparently belonged to the Jansen van Rensburg family, was not shown to them either to identify it or claim it from the police.

"It is unclear for this court which road these firearms walked," said Koekemoer.

He said in view of the large number of police at the scene of the crime, including several senior police officials, the investigation left much to be desired.

- SAPA
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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Farm-murder-10-suspects-acquitted-20110928
 
Korn1 said:
Can they be summoned 2 court again if they actually do the job properly?
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Can't try them for the same crime twice. If you want to try them again you will need to charge them with something else if you can.

Double jeopardy as they call it applies to acquittals.

I'm no lawyer so take what I say with a pinch of salt.
 
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In other countries, these officers would be disciplined and/or demoted. I wonder if they will.
 
Lounger said:
In other countries, these officers would be disciplined and/or demoted. I wonder if they will.
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Why would they, after all they are just following the orders given by their superiors. If those orders are to fumble investigations related to farm murders then they have done their jobs well. Who cares anyway it was just some white agents occupying land stolen from the black inhabitants, and as they are white, by default racist so they got what they deserved, right ? Whites should get the **** out of Africa, or so a taxi driver recently told me while overtaking and then cutting me off to turn right in a straight only lane.
 
BigBullBully said:
Why would they, after all they are just following the orders given by their superiors. If those orders are to fumble investigations related to farm murders then they have done their jobs well. Who cares anyway it was just some white agents occupying land stolen from the black inhabitants, and as they are white, by default racist so they got what they deserved, right ? Whites should get the **** out of Africa, or so a taxi driver recently told me while overtaking and then cutting me off to turn right in a straight only lane.
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I think you are going way to deep into this. I suspect it's mere incompetence, nothing else.

The police did a bad job and then the prosecutor/state to this further by going to trial with shoddy evidence/procedure. Both are at fault.
 
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ponder said:
I think you are going way to into this. I suspect it's mere incompetence, nothing else.
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I'm amazed at what he could hear from the taxi driver while he performed all these illegal traffic moves.
 
Fudzy said:
I'm amazed at what he could hear from the taxi driver while he performed all these illegal traffic moves.
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Why so amazed ? Do you suffer from selective hearing, when someone leans out a vehicle window looks right at you as you hoot at them for blocking the straight only lane to perform a illegal right turn and shouts a racist insult at you, do you selectively not hear them, or does your driving style/mindset make you the one leaning out the window ?
 
BigBullBully said:
Why so amazed ? Do you suffer from selective hearing, when someone leans out a vehicle window looks right at you as you hoot at them for blocking the straight only lane to perform a illegal right turn and shouts a racist insult at you, do you selectively not hear them, or does your driving style/mindset make you the one leaning out the window ?
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Well if you two are stopped then it would be easier to hear him. You said in your post he was overtaking you or do you suffer from selective vocabulary.?
 
Not a hell of a lot coming from the peanut gallery on this one I see...what a surprise.
 
Fudzy said:
Well if you two are stopped then it would be easier to hear him. You said in your post he was overtaking you or do you suffer from selective vocabulary.?
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Yawn...., not playing today, guess it's back to sitting under the bridge for you, don't worry there will be others willing to play with you today mkay !
 
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