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Original Post Date: 2007-03-21 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
A security guard, addicted to cocaine, on Tuesday told the Cape High Court he panicked when an elderly man at a complex in Sea Point disturbed him as he tried to break into a store room in search of drugs.
Anton van der Merwe, in his early 20s, has pleaded not guilty before Judge Tandaswa Ndita to the murder and aggravated robbery of Cyril Kurland, 76, on July 10, 2005.
Kurland and his wife were residents at Bordeaux in Beach Road.
On the day Kurland had gone to the basement parking to search for his spectacles in his wife’s car, when he disturbed Van der Merwe trying to unlock a store room door with a piece of wire.
Prosecutor Anthony Stephen alleges Van der Merwe attacked Kurland when Kurland asked him what he was up to.
Questioned by defence counsel Deana Haldenby, Van der Merwe told the court he was a security guard at the complex, where a group of Nigerian men lived and traded in drugs.
He said he had regularly obtained cocaine rocks from the men.
He had once seen them hiding the drugs in a flower pot.
He told how he had stolen the flower pot containing the drugs worth about R50 000.
He then informed them he knew the culprit, who was willing to sell the flower pot back to them for R500.
He was given R500 to give to the “culprit”, but his intention was to keep much of the cocaine rocks for himself.
Questioned by Stephen about his attack on Kurland, he said he had been in the basement for two hours before he tried to open the store room.
Because it was his day off, his presence there amounted to trespassing.
“Suddenly, someone asked me what I was doing,” he said.
He said he immediately panicked over the fear of being arrested, and swung at Kurland with his fist.
He recalled grabbing Kurland and slamming him against a pillar.
Kurland fell to the floor, but managed to get up and run away, but he chased after him.
Asked why he did not run away himself, he replied: “He was shouting for security, and I was there illegally, looking for drugs.
“I thought… if they catch me I will go to jail.”
The case continues on Thursday. – Sapa
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