Moodleys silent on killer son
2005-07-28 08:50
Johannesburg - They still stand rock-solid behind him, but refuse to say anything.
On Wednesday, Yeshika Singh, fiancee of Donovan Moodley, 25, sat once more between Moodley's father, Stephen, and his sister, Michal, in the courtroom.
She and Moodley exchanged meaningful looks and squeezed each other's hands before Moodley left court after the day's proceedings.
Moodley supporters still refuse to talk to the media.
"You are invading our privacy. Please just leave us alone," an agitated Stephen Moodley told a journalist when asked how he felt now that it had become clear his son had moved Leigh's corpse.
Singh also refused a paid interview with a weekly magazine, YOU/Huisgenoot.
Came to court in leg-irons again
It was learnt she had been offered R5 000 to tell Moodley's side of the drama.
Stephen Moodley stared in front of him on Wednesday when he heard a ballistics expert testify that Leigh Matthews could not have been shot where her body was found.
Moodley came to court in leg-irons again after advocate Johan Pretorius had asked on Tuesday whether it was "really necessary" that his client came to court in leg-irons every day.
Moodley sat with his head bowed and wrote in a notebook while today's three witnesses testified.
He nodded his head now and then when the interpreter repeated some of the testimony in English.
During his cross-examination, Pretorius tried to maintain that Moodley had not moved Leigh's corpse.
After spider expert Professor Ansie Dippenaar's testimony, Pretorius turned to Moodley and whispered: "This is all I could do, sorry."