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Original Post Date: 2008-12-15 Time: 14:00:15 Posted By: Jan
Two men who brutally beat up a Pretoria woman and left her for dead near a local hotel in February last year were found guilty of attempted murder on Monday.
Acting Judge Peter Mabuse found Louis Brits, 21, and Dirk Grobler, 24, guilty of attempting to murder 37-year-old Theresa van Jaarsveld near the Maders Hotel in Mayville.
He however acquitted them on a charge of raping her. He also found the two guilty of stealing Van Jaarsveld’s car radio.
Mabuse rejected Grobler’s claim that he was not present when Van Jaarsveld was attacked. He said it was clear from the evidence that both men had accompanied Van Jaarsveld to a dark corner that night after drinking and dancing together in the hotel and that both had taken part in the brutal assault.
He could not find that they had raped their victim as well – because there was evidence that she had willingly accompanied them and did not object when Grobler told Brits they were going to have sex.
A police officer who found the naked Van Jaarsveld the next morning testified that she was so badly beaten up, he at first believed she was dead.
Van Jaarsveld, who was now so severely disabled that she was confined to a wheelchair and could not speak coherently, testified that she could not remember the attack or ever visiting Maders Hotel.
“I did not deserve this…I am very unhappy…I need care all day long. Physically I’m disabled, but mentally I’m getting better and better. “The Judge must please punish them severely,” she said.
Brits told the court he was sorry for what he did and hoped his family, Van Jaarsveld and her family could forgive him.
He said he did Bible study in jail, hoped to learn a trade and wanted to help support Van Jaarsveld financially when he came out of jail.
Van Jaarsveld’s mother, Trysie Fensham, said her daughter had changed from a bubbly girl who was close to her three children and loved partying, to a withdrawn, moody, helpless woman with phobias.
Fensham had to resign from her job because her daughter needed care 24 hours per day. “Theresa could not stand, walk or even sit up on her own, could not feed herself and could not propel her wheelchair on her own,” she said.
Van Jaarsveld and her three children have been living with her mother since the incident, and survived on her widowed mother’s pension payout.
Fensham said her daughter had already undergone three operations and doctors were hopeful that she might walk again one day. They were unable to say if her intellectual abilities and memory would improve in future. Asked how she felt about the accused, Fensham said she had forgiven them because as a Christian she believed she would not be forgiven for her own sins if she did not forgive them.
She did not want to comment about a possible sentence, saying she left everything in God’s hands. Sentencing will occur on Wednesday. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20081215172145241C724091