Murder victim Carmen vd Westhuizen injuries 'worst he'd ever seen':
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Update on page of Mrs Carmen van der WEsthuizen:
Virginia Regional Court. Murdered Mrs Carmen van der Westhuizen 38 had a total of 79 injuries on her body, testified Dr Wilhelm van Heusden, pathologist, at the trial of murder-accused Nqakalatsane, a man who was out on parole at the time.
Dr Van Heusen testified that Mrs Carmen van der Westhuizen was murdered in the most gruesome way: 'this was the most gruesome post-mortem examination I've had to undertake in my thirty-year career'.
The pathologist testified in detail exactly how Mrs Van der Westhuizen had sustained 79 injuries to her body. The suspect claims he 'acted in self-defence' against the frail Afrikaner woman, that she 'bothered him while he was gardening.'
She also was raped. The Van der Westhuizen couple had moved into the rental home only a week earlier. The gardener worked for a relative who was the rental agent.
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VIDEO IN Afrikaans with murder-accused in dock and testimony by Dr Wilhelm van Heusden:
http://youtu.be/zvA-V4s_ItE
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State Pathologist Dr Wilhelm van Heusden testifies in the Virginia Circuit High Court, South Africa that 'intensity of the violence with which Mrs Carmen van der Westhuizen was murdered 'was one ten most gruesome post-mortem examinations I have conducted in past 30 years'.
He was a State witness in the murder-trial of Paul Nqakalatsane. He told acting judge Celeste Reynders that Mrs Van der Westhuizen, 38, sustained a total of 79 injuries.
"Her nose was crushed, she had 49 cut and hacking wounds, chafe-wounds and bruises. Four of the wounds probably led to her death."
Nqakalatsane - who claimed he had hacked and stabbed the young Afrikaner woman in 'self-defence' - testified that he was 'very angry" with the young Afrikaner mom 'because she came and bothered me while I was gardening,' he claimed.
So he bashed her over the head with a spade. She fled into the house. He chased her into the kitchen where - he said - she had a knife in her hand. A struggle followed, he took the knife away from her and 'stabbed her everywhere', the man testified.
He also testified that she screamed, begged and tried to flee from him.
Van Heusden testified that most of the wounds were found on Mrs Van der Westhuizen's head, neck and arms. Many of these wounds indicated that she tried to shield herself from them .
Wounds on the back of her neck indicated that she was lying on her stomach - and 'the wounds were spread in a wide pattern and stabbed downwards'.
After the murder, Nqakalatsane threw away his bloodied clothes - and his shoes on top of the roof of his mother's house because he could not wash them.
He denied raping Mrs Van der Westhuizen. While cross-examined by State advocate Amanda Bester why Mrs Van der Westhuizen's red panties were lying next to her head: he replied:
"she might have taken it off while trying to flee from me during the struggle'. Bester rejected this version of events and urged that he must be found guilty as charged."Your version is pure rubbish. You wanted to rape her and then you killed her. If she was fleeing as you had claimed, how did you act 'in self-defence'. You were the aggressor'.
The judgment is being awaited. - The Van der Westhuizen had just moved from Delareyville to the rental home in Riebeeckstad, Welkom days before she was murdered.
She was still busy unpacking when she was slaughtered. Nqakalatsane - who was released from parole for a previous crime - was asked by the property agent to clean the garden.
He did not work for the Van der Westhuizen couple. It was his second day on the job.
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Nov 27 2013 - VIRGINIA CIRCUIT HIGH COURT -- Carmen Van der Westhuizen, 38, was raped and stabbed more than SEVENTY times 'in self-defence', claims black accused man Paul Nqakalatsane, 24 in court. He denied charges of rape and murder. He was arrested on 7 February 2013 - the same evening of her murder -- with her blood still on his shoes.
-- When the man made this far-fetched claim in the Virginia law court, her distraught widower Pieter wept and laughed bitterly through his tears while listening in court.
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Court hearing on: Monday 25 2013: (continues in Virginia Circuit Court)
-- Accused murderer-rapist Nqakalatsane insisted before acting judge Celeste Reynders that he 'had not raped and murdered the Afrikaner woman".
He claimed that she had 'attacked him', and that he had 'defended himself' and that's why she died.
-- Her widower Pieter testified that he found his murdered wife on 7 February 2013 in the kitchen of their rental home in Welkom, where they'd moved in only a week earlier. "That afternoon I got a call (at work) from school that Carmen had not fetched the children yet. I fetched them in my job-car and went home. My own car was in the garage. The front door was locked. I went to the rear and saw cat-sand scattered all over the floor. I saw a large puddle of blood from the wall to underneath the table. Carmen was covered up by a blanket. Only her hands and feet were visible. I was so shocked that it didn't register what I was seeing at first. I took my wife's hand. It was a strange yellow colour. It was ice-cold. I realized my children could come in and saw her this way. I went outside to stop them from coming in and took them to my work-place because we did not know anyone in Welkom." He wept throughout his testimony, it was reported. The couple and their two children Minette (9) and Dylan (8) had just moved from Delareyvilleto Welkom. That morning she had dropped Pieter off at work and then took the children to school. Upon her return she was ambushed inside their rental home.Pieter testified that he and the children went through weeks of trauma-counselling. His children now are on anti-depressants, and his son is terrified of sleeping in his own bedroom and gets nightmares. "I must be strong, there is no other way to carry on,' he testified.
-- Nqakalatsane - who has a parent working at the rental agency - was asked to fix up the garden of the house: he is a parolee for an earlier crime. He was arrested that night. His shoes with Carmen's blood on them, were found on the roof of his mother's house in Thabong.The case continues. State prosecutor is Advocate Amanda Bester. Testimony is next expected from Dr. Willie van Heusden, state pathologist, who will testify in detail about the more than 70 stabbing- and other wounds which led to Mrs Carmen van der Westhuizen's death. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=770471872979360&set=pb.116298045063416.-2207520000.1385541978.&type=3&theater
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