Adv Barbie shuns ex
2003-02-10 12:55
Pretoria - Cezanne Visser, aka Adv Barbie, resisted legal attempts on Monday by Dirk Prinsloo - her former boyfriend and co-accused on charges of indecent assault - to have contact between them allowed.
"My client does not want to have contact with accused number one (Prinsloo)," Ren Oosthuisen, for Visser, told the Pretoria magistrate's court.
He asked that a bail condition disallowing contact between the pair be retained, saying Prinsloo made a nuisance of himself.
"Her (Visser's) mother receives up to 17 phone calls from him a day."
Oeloff de Meyer, for Prinsloo, asked for the condition to be altered, describing it as unconstitutional.
It was also not a necessity, as it did not appear at this stage that Visser would turn state witness.
Courts could not prevent spouses and life partners from seeing one another, De Meyer contended.
Abusing legal system
If Visser so wanted, she could obtain an interdict against Prinsloo, he argued, and accused her of abusing the legal system.
"Nothing prevents one party from refusing to speak to the other," De Meyer said.
For the state, Martin Hugo said there was no clarity on whether Visser would be called as a state witness.
Magistrate Peet Johnson turned down Prinsloo's request, and postponed the case to May 7 for further investigation.
The pair were released on R4 000 bail each in December.
She recently told the media she and Prinsloo had broken up.
At their bail hearing in December, the court was told that three minor girls claimed to have been indecently assaulted by the pair. One of the girls had laid charges, while police still needed to trace the other two.
At the time, the couple faced a charge each of indecent assault. Prinsloo is also charged with attempted murder - relating to an alleged trespasser he shot at his home in 2001.
Police were furthermore investigating charges of possession of child pornography and dagga.
The magistrate granted a change to the bail conditions which would allow Visser and Prinsloo to move freely in Mpumalanga, Limpopo, the North West and Gauteng. They were previously limited to Pretoria and Johannesburg.
Prinsloo also gave an undertaking in court that he would halt an investigation he had launched into the affair.
- SAPA