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Original Post Date: 2008-12-16 Time: 08:00:01 Posted By: Jan
A 38-year-old mother of three who was so severely beaten by two young men at the Maders Hotel in Mayville last year that she is now wheelchair-bound, has asked the Pretoria High Court to deal harshly with her attackers.
Louis Brits, 23, and Dirk Grobler, 24, were yesterday convicted of attempted murder after they brutally attacked Theresa van Jaarsveld and left her for dead on Valentine’s Day last year.
Brits and Grobler were also convicted of stealing a music system out of her car.
They were acquitted, however, of raping Van Jaarsveld that night.
| ‘I did not deserve what happened to me’ |
Judge Peter Mabuse said it was clear that Van Jaarsveld did not object when one of the accused informed his friend that night that they were going to a dark spot to have sex with her.
He said she willingly walked with her two attackers down the road for sex.
The judge, however, found that they severely attacked her afterwards. Apart from being in a wheelchair, Van Jaarsveld also suffered brain damage after she was kicked and beaten by the pair.
Van Jaarsveld, who now needs around-the-clock care, cannot eat, walk or do anything for herself.
Her mother, Tracy Fensham, wheeled her into the witness stand, where she, in distorted speech, told the judge that she could not remember going to Maders that night.
| ‘My daughter was once full of life’ |
She also could not remember her attackers.
“I did not deserve what happened to me. You must please punish them harshly,” she said.
Van Jaarsveld said while her mind was becoming clearer everyday, she was physically impaired.
Her mother testified that she had to quit her job to look after her daughter and granddaughter and that she was using her pension money to look after the family.
Fensham said her daughter could not care for herself and that she had to be carried around when not in her wheelchair.
Although the family hoped that she would one day be able to walk, again, doctors could not give them any guarantees.
“My daughter was once full of life.
“These days she is quiet and at times afraid,” Fensham told the court.
The court heard that Van Jaarsveld’s children at first had not wanted to see their mother in the state she has been reduced to, but were now accepting it and trying to come to terms with the situation.
Brits, who took the stand on Monday, said he was “bitterly sorry” for what he had done and wanted to make amends.
He asked Van Jaarsveld for forgiveness.
“When I am done with my sentence one day I want to help her and give her money,” he said.
Brits said his ambition was to become a fitter and turner in prison and to later work for his uncle so that he could earn money and provide for Van Jaarsveld.
He said he never realised after the attack how badly she was injured.
It was only after he saw the pictures of her near-dead body lying on the pavement that it “hit” him what he had done.
Grobler, on the other hand, did not take the stand to express his remorse. He simply stared at his victim when she gave evidence.
Grobler previously told a social worker that while he and Brits were once friends, the friendship was over because Brits had implicated him in a crime of which he was not guilty. The two will be sentenced on Wednesday.