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Original Post Date: 2007-05-30 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
An Estcourt businessman, Mohammed Asmal, 28, described in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday how he had come home for lunch on September 15, 2005 to the sight of his 19-year-old wife, Safia Mahomed, lying dead in a pool of blood in the passage of their townhouse.
Asmal spoke in a slightly trembling voice as he recalled the traumatic events of that day, which initially also involved the police treating him as a suspect in the murder.
On trial for the killing is the victim’s 19-year-old relative, Mohammed Shoaib Sathar, whose father was Safia’s cousin.
State advocate Dorian Paver told Judge Atkins Moleko and two assessors that the state would lead evidence of the post mortem that showed Mahomed had suffered a blow to her head with a blunt object that had caused brain injuries, in addition to which she had sustained multiple stab wounds to her body, and her throat had been slit from left to right.
Outlining the state’s evidence against Sathar, Paver said a police dog had located clothing and shoes belonging to Sathar at his parents’ home.
Although an attempt had been made to wash the items, forensic tests had revealed traces of human blood on the clothing and shoes, and the blood on the shoes matched that of the victim. In addition, he said evidence would be led – although its admissibility is to be challenged by the defence – that Sathar had made a pointing out to police, as a result of which the alleged murder weapon, a bread knife, was recovered, and had made various statements to a police officer.
Sathar has pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder.
His advocate, Gideon Scheltema, SC, read a statement by Sathar to the court in which he denies he was present when Mahomed was killed, or that he was involved in any way.
Sathar said he had learned of Mahomed’s death about 1.40pm when his father had fetched him from a local hotel.
Asmal said that on the day in question he had left Mahomed asleep in bed to go to work at his general dealership. He had shut the kitchen door and locked the padlock on the burglar gate.
He said that about 9.45am Mahomed had telephoned him to ask what he wanted for lunch. That was the last time they spoke. When he arrived home at 1.10pm, he discovered her body. Asmal went to his neighbour for help.
He testified that police had demanded that he hand over his T-shirt and shoes and had questioned him as if he were a suspect. He had agreed to undergo an examination by a district surgeon.
Asmal told the court that the weekend before his wife’s death the accused (Sathar) had arrived at their home claiming that his parents had kicked him out of the house, and had ended up staying with them for three nights. Asmal and his wife did not want Sathar to live with them permanently, and Mahomed’s father had taken him back to his parents.
Asmal will be cross-examined by the defence on Tuesday.