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Original Post Date: 2008-05-08 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Ella Smook
Najwa Petersen twice told police she had “nothing to hide” in the first statement she made shortly after the murder of her husband, the Cape High Court heard on Thursday.
The investigating officer in the high-profile Taliep Petersen murder case, Captain Joash Dryden, told the court this morning that he took the statement from Petersen two days after the murder in her capacity as a victim of a house robbery which culminated in murder.
When he asked her to explain “what happened” on the night her husband was killed, she described her mental health to him.
She also volunteered information about an incident in April, eight months before the December 16, 2006, slaying of her husband, when she had stabbed Taliep in the neck, before telling about the murder and robbery.
Sitting on the bed in Taliep Petersen’s bedroom, Najwa gave her personal particulars, said she had been married to Taliep for 10 years, and then said she had been receiving psychiatric treatment for the past four years.
She had also been to various clinics and just two months earlier had been at the Crescent Clinic, she said.
“I suffer from stress and depression,” she said, before telling Dryden about the stabbing incident, of which she could “not remember everything clearly”.
Dryden said this morning that Petersen had appeared competent enough to make a statement and, if she had not been, he would have spoken to her at a later stage.
Petersen told Dryden there had been no hard feelings between her and her husband after the stabbing incident.
She added that she had tried to commit suicide by taking pills.
Only after this description of her mental health and the stabbing incident, did Najwa give her version of the events surrounding the robbery and murder of her husband.
She said she had spent the entire day in the bedroom because she had not been feeling well.
Taliep had been out for the day with the children and when he returned home that night they talked and prayed in her bedroom.
“There was not conflict,” she told Dryden.
She showered and went to bed and fell into a deep sleep.
Suddenly she was woken “wildly” with a gun barrel held against her head.
A man, with a “white or black” balaclava and gloves, asked her: “Where is the money?”
The robbery followed and she handed the man a bag with R40 000 to R50 000 from the safe.
“There was no ill feelings between me and Taliep and my family can confirm this.
“I have nothing to hide.
“I am still receiving treatment,” Najwa told Dryden.
She said she was locked in her room when she heard a shot, followed by “a deathly silence”.
She told Dryden she had called family members while locked in the room, and that she was later freed when her father, Sulaiman Dirk, and brother-in-law, Igshaan Petersen, kicked down the door.
Dryden said this morning that he never asked Najwa about her medical state and that she also never told police about the numerous calls she made on the night of the murder to Fahiem Hendricks.