Man in court for triple murder
2003-10-17 14:55
Pretoria - A suspect in the Rawstone triple murder appeared in the Temba magistrate's court, north of Pretoria on Friday and was remanded in custody, police said.
Superintendent Morne van Wyk said William Kekana would reappear on November 7 to answer three charges of murder, one of attempted murder and two charges of rape and robbery.
The charges stem from an incident on July 31 when Janine Drennen, 24, her one-year-old daughter Kayla, and her fiance's mother, Hester Rawstone, 52, were hijacked in Sunnyside, Pretoria.
The hijackers shot Rawstone in the neck and dumped her body at the corner of Soutpansberg and Hebron roads in the suburb of Riviera. They then drove to Stinkwater near Hammanskraal, kidnapping a teenaged girl along the way. They took their captives to an open veld, where they raped Drennen and the girl before shooting them and the baby.
The teenager survived.
Charges against Kekana's four alleged accomplices were withdrawn for lack of conclusive evidence and a sixth suspect died in hospital after he exchanged shots with the police in Soshanguve.
- SAPA