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Original Post Date: 2008-05-08 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
“I have nothing to hide,” Najwa Petersen declared in the first formal statement she made to police after the murder of her entertainer husband Taliep.
And to drive the message home, she repeated it a few sentences later: “This is all true and I have nothing to hide.”
At the time she was being interviewed as a witness, not a suspect, investigating officer Captain Joe Dryden told the Cape High Court on Thursday.
Dryden, who was accused by Najwa’s advocate of using “absolutely shocking” methods in questioning her, also said Najwa claimed there had been no bad feelings between her and Taliep.
Najwa is on trial along with three men she allegedly hired to murder Taliep on the night of December 16 2006.
Dryden said he took the sworn statement from Najwa two days after the killing, in a bedroom at her Athlone home.
When he explained what he wanted, she began telling him about her medical history — she suffers from a psychiatric disorder — and said she had stabbed Taliep in the neck in April that year.
“She appeared calm and there was no indication that she was in any way not in a condition to make a statement,” he said.
In the statement she said she was woken on the night of the 16th by a man with a gun who made her take money from a safe.
She saw some men tying up Taliep on the floor before she was locked in a bedroom, then heard a shot followed by a “deathly silence”.
She went into detail in the statement about her psychiatric condition, saying she was suffering from stress and depression and had tried to commit suicide.
She said the fact that she stabbed Taliep in April “did not cause any bad feelings between us”.
“Taliep knew my condition and that I was receiving treatment for it.”
Dryden was cross-examined at length by Najwa’s advocate, Klaus von Lieres, about his questioning of Najwa on January 7 2007.
During that questioning Najwa told police she had been having an affair with Fahiem Hendricks, the man who has told the court she asked him to arrange the hit on Taliep.
Dryden told the court Najwa had been one of several people called in on that occasion by the investigating team, which began working flat out on the case on the morning of the 6th and carried on through the night.
He said he went to fetch Najwa from her brother’s home in Gordon’s Bay some time between 3am and 6am on the 7th, and took her to the organised crime unit offices in Bellville South.
Von Lieres said that to protect people’s fundamental constitutional rights, the Criminal Procedure Act laid down that subpoenas could not be served between sunset and sunrise.
He asked Dryden where this “habit” of questioning people in the middle of the night came from, and whether there was any police regulation that allowed it.
Dryden said his team had been tired, and wanted to crack the case. “There’s no time like the present,” he said.
Von Lieres said Dryden’s conduct had been “completely wrong” and the midnight questioning was “absolutely shocking.
“I put it to you you harassed her from day one.”
“You are completely wrong,” said Dryden.
Dryden also told the court that a few weeks after the murder Najwa wanted Taliep’s R5.3 million life insurance policy to be paid into a Namibian bank account.
The beneficiary was the couple’s daughter Zainub, but Najwa was the guardian, and would have controlled the money, he said.
Liberty Life held back the payout at his request.
It was only months later that lawyers drew up documents for a trust for Zainub.
Dryden also revealed that Taliep, a Muslim, had been buried by the time police thought of obtaining a blood sample from his body for checking against blood spatters on the murder scene.
The trial has been postponed to Monday for the final state witness. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080508180859163C650111