Police-photographer
was 'falling down drunk' at crime scene investigation at Navalsig, Bloemfontein
of Hugo van der Berg murder: widow
18:30 Jan 5 2013 Navalsig, Bloemfontein
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Police-photographer was 'falling down drunk' at crime scene
investigation at Navalsig, Bloemfontein of Hugo van der Berg murder: widow Jan
9 2012 - Volksblad journalist Jana van der Merwe spoke to Elmarie, the
traumatised widow of murdered Bloemfontein Afrikaner Hugo van der Berg, 34. He
was stabbed to death on the evening of January 5 2013 in the parking lot of
their Bloemfontein apartment building in Navalsig. He had 'repeated' stab
wounds in his chest, his right arm and right leg. Elmarie van der Berg said her
husband, who works as Health and Security official at a concrete company, did
not get robbed. She has many questions about what happened to him. Several
weeks before his murder he was 'very quiet', and he left that Saturday at
around 16h30 in the same somber mood, she said. 'He wouldn't tell me where he
was going, he was acting in a curious way, and why? We didn't even have the
change to say goodbye to him,' she told the journalist. She said the two
youngest children Duncan 2 and Logan 9 months won't remember their dad - but
she told their oldest son SW 5 that their dad was dead. Earlier on Saturday he
had still taken the family for a swim. "He loved the kids and paid them
much attention,' she said. She doubts whether the culprits will ever be caught.
She said the police-photographer who was supposed to photograph the crime scene
was so drunk that night that his colleagues had to hold him upright. "And
the officials didn't even block off the crime scene, they also walked through
the blood puddles, and moreover they only arrived on the parking lot on
Monday-afternoon to take fingerprints from Hugo's bakkie. It's going to be a
long, hard road ahead, but the Lord's grace has always been great,' she said. SAPS
capt Harry Nagel sald Mrs Van der Berg's complaints about the Navalsig police's
poor crime-scene investion 'will be investigated. The ENTIRE story in Afrikaans
is on URL:
http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Gebroke-na-raaiselmoord-20130108
