Inaccurate death certificate for Alice Botha: poor police investigation:
The family of the murdered Afrikaner couple also question inaccurate death-certificate date submitted in the court documents for their mother Alice.
They also complain about the 'poor police investigation' and will raise this with the authorities, Mrs Botha-Muller wrote me.
The family was very unhappy about the fact that one of the suspects who had actually been found in her sister's house after the attack by the police, 'was allowed to walk very closely to the family in his shackles in the court room.' This upset them very much, she wrote. "We complained to the public prosecutor about the fact that the suspects are allowed to move to such close vicinity to the family, but she offered as explanation that Delmas had 'an old court room' .
Mother was strangled, raped and suffered severe brain damage, causing her death: the family is deeply upset that the death-certificate showed an inaccurate date:
"The evidence in the documents was that my mother was strangled, that she also was raped and that she sustained such horrendous injuries to her head that these led to her death.
The family questions the accuracy of the date on her death-certificate: "Our mother was already dead when my sister arrived and discovered them - and my mother therefore must have died between 9 and 10 pm, while the rest of the family arrived at 11pm. However the death-certificate lists her as dying on 13 February -- but that's rubbish: that's the date the police-forensic investigator arrived at the crime-scene - between 1 and 2am -- but she was long dead then. The court records also indicate that my father's brain injuries sustained on 12 February 2010 also were directly linked to his death in hospital months later, according to the forensic report. There are several things which worry the family about, namely that the police conducted a poor investigation, but we will be discussing this with the authorities before the trial resumes in April 2011."
Alice Botha-Muller: http://www.farmitracker.com/reports/view/1914
