Update bail application February 21 2015 - Bloemfontein High Court: Swanepoel farm couple of Bainsvlei tortured for hours; wife Rienie 70 gangraped by each of the three accused males.
identified as Motsaimai Jacobus Bitterbos, 25, Fana Hendrik Thshudi 19 and Jackie Louw, 19.
When the elderly couple were executed after hours of torture and rape, 'it looked like a target-practice', police testimony revealed at the
Bloemfontein High court.
This was the evidence submitted to magistrate R.J. Lawrence by the State to deny the three suspects bail. Only one of three continued the bail
application - Ntshudi and Louw had dropped theirs at the last minute. They are suspected appear on rape, murder, housebreaking and theft.
Investigating warrant-officer Kobus Coetzee testified that the three suspects told him a day after the double-murder that they had shot
Toon Swanepoel in a leg 'to keep him under control because he wanted to fight back'. They took the Afrikaner couple to a bedroom and tied
them up on a single-bed - where they took turns raping Rienie in front of her injured husband.
They drove off briefly too hide their loot away from the farm, and then returned with the intention to continue torturing the couple.
Coetzee testified that the three suspects had informed him that they had forced the Swanepoel couple into their bakkie to take them about
3km from their homestead to a wooded area on the farm Waaikraal. They had Toon dead first.
And then they took Rienie from the bakkie, placed her on top of her husband's body - and shot her dead too."It appeared as if they were doing
target-practice on the couple,' the police officer testified.
The following day, the three accused men also pointed out the area where they had left behind the bodies of the tortured couple.
When arrested, Bitterbos was carrying the legally-registered firearm which was owned by the Swanepoel couple.
His defence counsel Kerapetswe Kgosimang argued that "Bitterbos didn't necessary commit the crimes just because he was arrested while driving
the couple's bakkie or carried a weapon belonging to the murder victims'.
Magistrate Lawrence will rule on Friday whether Bitterbos' bail application was successful. The three males remain in custody.
http://www.netwerk24.com/nuus/2015-02-20-vrou-voor-man-deur-3-verkrag
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Update: 20 January 2015 South Africa Today reports: "Robber: eats biscuits while his comrade executes the tied-up Afrikaner couple like dogs -- *The news media refers the killers as 'robbers' but very little of value was 'robbed'...
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January 19, 2015 Robber eats biscuits while accomplice executes couple
The Swanepoel couple of Bainsvlei, Bloemfontein was shot on top of each othert: First Toon (72) and then his wife Rienie (70).
The couple, who were very close to each other, was entangled together at their death. Their bodies were covered with thorn bushes.
A robber stood and ate Rienie’s biscuits while he watched his accomplice shoot the couple in the head. They had been tied together and he shot them one at a time.
Shortly after their bodies were pointed out in an old braai one of the three alleged killers wanted to know if he can be released on bail of R100.
“I got work at a neighbor. I have to start tomorrow” he said.
None of the three showed any sign of remorse or cared about the murders.
The couple was described as “beloved and friendly” people who cared for all people. Boys from the area regularly went to her home for help and said, “Grandma, we want biscuits!”
Toon as owner of Hamilton panel beaters bought a car for his black partner, Tammy to drive to Brandfort.
The Swanepoel murder is the seventh double farm murder in the region since 2010.
These murders are almost the same as the double farm murder in September 2012 when Johan Fourie (71) and his wife, Cecile (72) died on their farm outside Trompsburg.
Like the Fourie’s the Swanepoel couple was attacked in their farmhouse shortly after they attended the morning service on Sunday in the NG Church Waterbron.
http://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/robber-eats-biscuits-while-accomplice-executes-couple/
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Update: New magistrate has hands full with Bainsvlei community anger at appearance of 3 black murder-suspects of Swanepoel couple
Wed, 14 January 2015 During the first remand appearance of the three murder-suspects of the cruelly-tortured Afrikaner couple Toon and Rienie Swanepoel,
a tense atmosphere prevailed in Court 19 at the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court.
Verbal rows broke out between court-orderlies, the police and members of the family before the case was even called.
Chaos broke out when the news media also were physically barred from taking any pictures of the suspects - even though there had not been any identity-parade and it was not an issue.
Appearing were Fana Hendrik Mtshudi (19), Motsamai BItterbos (25) and Jackie Louw (19). They were ordered to return to the same court on 21 January 2015 for a bail application.
Mtshudi reportedly had a previous housebreaking-case against him, but Bitterbos and Louw had a clear crime record, the court was told.
All three suspects 'appeared frightened and sat with their heads down in the bench while members of the family and friends of the murdered couple snarled insults at them.
The State prosecutor said they want 'a very thorough investigation into the history of each of the three suspects.
Shouting broke out at this comment just seconds before magistrate R J Lawrence walked into the courtroom. Lawrence had just arrived from the East Cape
in the Free State and was still doing observation-work at the courtroom before he took the Bench.
One member of the Swanepoel family completely lost his cool and started using 'salty language' and threatening to kill them when the three suspects were accompanied back to the court-
cells below. A friend intervened when the police moved in and asked them to 'overlook his comments because it was his family which was murdered'.
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Update: Tight-knit Afrikaner couple Toon 73 and Rienie Swanepoel 70 were tied up together and killed one on top of the other by sadistic black attackers at their Bainsvlei, Free State farm - three black males appear in Bloemfontein magistrate's court on 21 January 2015 to apply for bail.
http://www.netwerk24.com/nuus/2015-01-14-hegte-egpaar-bo-op-mekaar-geskiet
three black males in Bloemfontein magistrate's court for murders of Toon 70 and Rienie Swanepoel 72, will apply for bail on 21 January 2015.
The elderly Afrikaner couple was murdered at Waaikraal farm, Bainsvlei and then dumped outside their homestead
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"3 appear for farm murders"
2015-01-14 Bloemfontein, South Africa. Three men named Fana Hendrik Ntshedi, 20, Jacobus Motsamai Bitterbos, 25, and Jackie Louw, 21 appeared in the Bloemfontein magistrate's court,
accused of killing and robbing Afrikaner couple Toon 70 and Rienie Swanepoel 72 and dumping their bodies near the Waaikraal, Bainsvlei homestead.
The three black males were ordered to remain in custody and be brought to the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court for their bail application on 21 January said police spokesman Harry Nagel.
"The couple had been shot and killed during a robbery in which a television set, firearms and vehicle were taken. The stolen items were recovered."
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/3-appear-for-farm-murders-20150114
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Toon and Rienie Swanepoel, 72 and 70, murdered on Bainsvlei Free State farm
Mon, 12 January 2015 REPORTER: SABRINA DEAN
Free State police have confirmed the names of the elderly couple killed on their smallholding along the Abrahamskraal Road between Kwaggafontein and Bainsvlei outside Bloemfontein.
Spokesman Sam Makhele says the bodies of Toon and Rienie Swanepoel, aged 72 and 70 respectively, were found this morning shortly after two black male suspects were arrested in the couple’s bloodied bakkie.
He says a third suspect was arrested in Kelly’s View shortly thereafter.
He says all three blacks are expected to appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on charges of murder.
http://www.bloemfonteincourant.co.za/article/5750/Bainsvlei-murdered-couples-names-released
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