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Original Post Date: 2004-01-19 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 1/19/2004 9:48:12 AM
S.Africa: Dutch Student found dead
[Note. From what has been publicised so far, it appears the Dutch student was last seen with a white man who then committed fraud with her credit card. It appears he may have murdered her, but the Police are still investigating. Sadly, we don’t have the death penalty. I’m all for hanging all murderers. Life sentences are a lot of bunk. Jan]
She was a “sweet” person whose desire to help others may have led to her death.
This is according to a woman who worked at the Mossel Bay backpackers where 24-year-old Dutch art and media student Marleen Konings spent her last Christmas with a man.
Konings’s body was found in Tradouw Pass near Barrydale in the Little Karoo mountains and it is believed that the corpse had been lying there for about 17 days.
The cause of her death is not yet known, but an autopsy is being conducted at Tygerberg Hospital.
Police probing her death are scheduled to question two doctors who treated her for food poisoning in Riversdale and Barrydale on December 27 and 28.
Konings was reported missing on December 29 after she failed to show up for a New Year’s Eve party in Cape Town.
Speaking to the Cape Argus last week, the backpacker employee said Konings and the man had started eating together after Konings’s travelling companion had to leave Mossel Bay urgently.
“They were both alone and it was Christmas, so they would sit together and keep each other company.”
The two were not romantically involved, she said.
The man is being held somewhere in the southern Cape
The man told her and Konings that he had worked as a pilot in Botswana before an air crash left him in a coma for three years, the woman said.
After he recovered from the coma, he said, he had gone to England, where a newspaper story about his miraculous recovery had prompted an unnamed publisher to offer him a book deal.
He was on the final chapters of the book, he told them.
“At the time, he came across as totally believable. He seemed like quite a nice, genuine guy. I would have given him a lift,” the woman said.
While not sure about how he had succeeded in getting a lift with Konings, the woman said she believed the student “had probably just wanted to help him out”.
Konings was a clean-living, “friendly” girl who did not drink or smoke and had befriended several Mossel Bay surfers, an employee at another Mossel Bay backpackers revealed.
“She would talk to anyone,” he said.
No murder charges have yet been laid against a man who was arrested on fraud charges after he used Konings’s credit card.
The man appeared in the Beaufort West magistrate’s court on Thursday.
The magistrate ruled that the name and photograph of the 46-year-old man may not be published. Police have however said that he is not Rob Cowley, whom police released an identikit of during the search for Konings.
The man is being held somewhere in the southern Cape, and will appear in the George magistrate’s court this week.
The man, who is known to police, denied knowing Konings at first, but under further questioning pointed out a picnic spot on the road between Barrydale and Suurbraak, where the body was discovered on Friday.
He apparently has a previous crime record.
Konings was one of about 12 000 students brought to South Africa over more than 20 years by Netherlands-South Africa Exchange.
Community safety MEC Leonard Ramatlakane visited Konings’s parents in Swellendam on Sunday to convey his sympathies and keep them posted on the latest developments.
He assured the family police were doing their utmost to ensure that those responsible for their daughter’s death were brought to book.
This article was originally published on page 3 of The Cape Argus on January 19, 2004
Source: IOL
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&ar…br>