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News – South Africa: Police insist handyman was rightly held

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Original Post Date: 2008-10-31 Time: 01:00:07  Posted By: Jan

By Karen Breytenbach

A Tokai handyman was fingered as the possible killer of Naomi Kaiser of Kenilworth in 2004.

A Wynberg police inspector told the Cape High Court on Wednesday that a handyman from Tokai was the main suspect in the murder case, because he had worked in her house.

Wrapping up testimony on Wednesday in Howard Steele’s damages suit against the police for wrongful arrest and detention, Inspector Charl Basson said although Steele was not considered a flight risk or a danger to society, he was detained because he was investigated for murder, a Schedule One offence.

Basson said by the time he and his colleague Gysbertus Geustyn went to Steele’s house to question him, a neighbour of Kaiser’s had already mentioned seeing Steele’s maroon bakkie and a man resembling him in front of Kaiser’s townhouse in the early afternoon of Friday, November 26 2004.

The neighbour saw the man picking up a key in Kaiser’s doorway.

Steele confirmed the key incident, but said it happened earlier that week while he was supervising painting and repairs at her house.

Steele said he did not have a key to Kaiser’s house, and the key in question was for the general storeroom of the security complex.

Despite Steele telling the police that he had an alibi for the Friday, the police took him into custody and checked out his alibi while he was in custody.

Steele’s advocate, Paul Tredoux, grilled the police about why this was necessary, instead of releasing him on bail or a warning.

Basson and Geustyn mentioned that they did not intend arresting Steele at home that evening, but later took him to the police station to talk privately after Steele’s wife “interfered”, to assure them that her husband was with her.

They said Steele was arrested after he mentioned the key incident at the police station.

Asked if Steele was ever questioned about his whereabouts in the midnight hours, Basson shook his head and said he “really could not say”.

Closing arguments will be delivered on Friday.

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    • Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20081030054440568C276493