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Baby Jordan: Accused tells all
02/09/2005 12:13 - (SA)
Cape Town - One of four men charged with the murder of Cape Town baby Jordan Leigh Norton has described in detail how a woman hired the killers, a Wynberg magistrate heard on Friday.
The court is hearing a bail application by one of the four, taxi driver Sipho Mfazwe. Also facing the murder charge but not in court on Friday is Dina Rodrigues, the alleged mastermind behind the killing.
Prosecutor John Ryneveld read out the confession Mfazwe made to a magistrate after his arrest in July in which he said he was approached by a woman at the Killarney taxi rank who asked for someone who spoke English.
"She asked about the people who commit crime and whether [I] knew any such people... She expected they must do the housebreaking and steal the goods and they must also kill the baby."
She gave him two phone books which she said should be delivered to the house.
"And then when they opened for them they must take the goods and also kill the baby."
The woman said she would pay R10 000 for the job.
Mfazwe said after the killing and robbery were carried out, the woman paid R5 000 and said she'd come back with more money.
"Unfortunately she didn't come back and I heard on TV she'd been arrested.
"I did not kill: I just took them there," he said.
"The people that were having the baby were Nobura and Moro. The others were taking the goods and they were saying they had already killed the baby."
Ryneveld also said Mfazwe's thumb print was found on a Speedfreight waybill found on the scene.
His cellphone records showed he made four calls to Rodrigues on June 14 this year, the day before the murder, and seven the next day after the killing had taken place.
It is alleged Rodrigues contracted the four to kill the baby after learning Jordan had been fathered by her then boyfriend.
- SAPA
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