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Original Post Date: 2008-04-18 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
The Danish consulate in Cape Town is at the centre of a wrangle over two young Danish children whose father was murdered, whom they wish to send back home.
The move is being blocked by the SAPS, who insist that the little boy and girl, aged just seven and four, may be required to testify against their mother for their father’s murder.
Millionaire Dane Preben Povlsen, 71, had been on his annual summer break with his family at their holiday home in Gordon’s Bay when he was found dead in Blaauwberg with 45 stab wounds in mid-January.
His Ugandan-born wife Maria was arrested for his torture and murder, together with her sister, Stella Ssengendo, and their brother, Francis Kimeze, who has pleaded guilty to killing his brother-in-law.
| ‘the little boy and girl had witnessed at least some of the bloody murder scenes’ |
With their father dead and their mother awaiting trial at Pollsmoor Prison, the couple’s two children are in the care of the State.
The murdered Dane’s adult son, Tom, who lives in Denmark, has repeatedly offered to care for the children and is distraught that they are suffering continuing trauma by being cared for in a foreign country by strangers.
The Cape Argus has learned that Danish consular authorities visited Maria Povlsen in prison on Wednesday and tried to persuade her to sign documents allowing her children to leave the country.
The Danish consul, Jorgen Dahl, refused to comment on the matter on Wednesday, referring the Cape Argus to the consular section of the Danish ministry of foreign affairs.
But Maria Povlsen’s lawyer, Zirk McKay, said he had urged his client not to sign the release documents until he had had a chance to examine them.
In the Strand magistrate’s court in March, police detective Cobus Greeff testified that the little boy and girl had witnessed at least some of the bloody murder scenes at their holiday home, including the sight of their father’s body.
The wrangle is now about whether the children’s welfare is of uppermost importance, or seeing justice done at their father’s trial, which may include their testimonies.
Initially, the two children were placed at a place of safety in Gordon’s Bay and attended school in the seaside village.
This prompted a formal letter of concern by the Royal Danish Consulate in Cape Town.
In a letter, Dahl described how the pair were suffering further trauma on top of their father’s death.
The little girl spoke Danish and English, but could not understand the other children, who spoke Afrikaans.
Furthermore, Dahl insisted that the pair receive therapy in their home language, Danish.
During the two sisters’ bail application at the Strand magistrate’s court, McKay also invoked the children’s situation in a bid to get the women freed, saying the children were being teased at school that their father was dead and their mother was a murderess.
Magistrate S du Toit Malherbe ruled that the children’s welfare was a separate matter.
It is understood that Dahl has successfully had the children placed with a Danish family in Cape Town, while continuing efforts to have the
children returned to Denmark.