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Original Post Date: 2008-02-13 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
When former South African heavyweight boxer Jimmy Abbott heard in 1999 of his brother’s conviction on charges of murder and assault, he knew the family curse had struck again – and predicted that the sins of the father will be punishable to the third and fourth generation.
On Tuesday in the Johannesburg High Court, a third generation of the Abbott clan was found guilty of murder and robbery for his part in the killing of 7de Laan soapie star Kobus Kleynhans.
Judge Frans Malan found that 30-year-old Harry Abbott and 27-year-old James Breedt stabbed Kleynhans 56 times across his entire body on July 16 2005.
“There is a stigma that sticks to the surname Abbott. It’s like a curse upon us. God said he will punish sinners to the third and even the fourth generation. This is what is happening to my family,” Jimmy “Dancing Doughnut” Abbott said in an interview almost 10 years ago.
| ‘There is a stigma that sticks to the surname Abbott’ |
The words would have done little to console Irene van Niekerk, Abbott’s sister and the mother of Harry, who sat sobbing through much of the judgment.
In contrast, throughout the retelling of the events that led to Kleynhans’s death, Abbott and Breedt sat expressionless.
When delivering judgment, Judge Malan described Abbott as an “opportunistic liar”, who displayed antisocial behaviour, “crying out against the world and blaming everybody but himself”.
Outside the courtroom, relatives of the accused hurled abuse at photographers wishing to get a picture of Irene Abbott.
In the 1999 interview, Abbott said the family’s problems started with his father, who had had a tough upbringing and was unable to express love, instead exorcising his demons on his family, at times beating his boys so badly that they would be left lying in their own blood.
During that period, Abbott’s brother Charles was found guilty of beating his fiance’s stepfather to death, and his other brother Ricky had regular run-ins with the law.
However, Abbott presented a uniquely South African rags-to-riches story, the boy-giant born into a poor white family who grew up with his five brothers and sisters on a smallholding. The heavyweight boxing champion-cum-AWB supporter-cum-wrestler-cum-debt collector-cum-evangelist experienced an epiphany which he claimed turned his life around.
In mitigation of sentence, the defence highlighted their clients’ lack of formal education, low IQs, difficult upbringing and drug addiction as reasons for a more lenient sentence.
Abbott and Breedt were to be sentenced on Wednesday.