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Original Post Date: 2010-09-20 Time: 21:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
Frank Zanner was accused of murder; Paul Kitzman of attempted murder. Both men were acquitted. The pair have nothing in common, except that both were arrested by retired supercop Piet Byleveld – who this week was reported to be starting a private detective agency with fellow former top detective Bushy Engelbrecht.
Now Zanner and Kitzman have instituted multi-million rand civil suits against Byleveld, blaming him for sloppy investigation. In 2002, Zanner was accused of callously murdering his wife Sybille with a crossbow. It was alleged that Zanner had shot his wife with a crossbow in Roodepoort because
She was found lying next to her car with a crossbow bolt lodged through her neck, and died in hospital a day later. But the German-born businessman was acquitted on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
Four years after he walked free, he is suing the state – the ministers of police and justice – for damages totalling R8,5m and he is blaming Byleveld for a sloppy investigation. Byleveld and three other police officers arrested Zanner on August 28, 2003, in Fourways, without an arrest warrant. Apparently, he was held in custody three days until he appeared in court.
Zanner was also the prime suspect in the 1992 murder of his employee, Samuel Tumisang Segaetso at a factory in Chamdor, Roodepoort. Zanner had initially been cleared in an inquiry, but the State successfully applied at the start of his wife’s trial, in July 2004, that he be charged with that murder too.
Segaetso had been struck on the head with a vernier (a measuring instrument) and had died in hospital. One witness testified that Zanner had been arguing with a colleague and threw a vernier at him, which had accidentally hit Segaetso.
But the defence applied for an acquittal under the Criminal Procedure Act, arguing that there could not have been any motive for Zanner to kill his wife. In fact, she had accepted that he had had an affair that produced an illegitimate daughter.
The State conceded that there was insufficient evidence to secure a conviction on that count, but still wanted the court to convict the accused for Segaetso’s murder.
In acquitting Zanner of the murders, presiding Judge Joop Labuschagne accepted that the State had failed to prove its case for the murder of Sybille Zanner. On the second charge, the court found that State witnesses had contradicted themselves. Giving evidence in court, one of the witnesses had contradicted the evidence in her two statements. Another element was that part of the docket was missing. A police diary and pocket diary were no longer available.
“There is no evidence that he had any intention to murder the deceased. The only question that remains is whether he acted negligently. It would be a waste of time to continue with this trial,” the judge said, discharging Zanner.
Now, in his summons Zanner says he is claiming R5m for general damages for harm to his reputation and rights, for harming his honour and dignity and associated inconvenience, humiliation and mental and bodily harm because of emotional shock, angst and depression as a result of his arrest and the fact that there had been no reasonable belief in the truth of the charges laid against him.
Zanner is also claiming R3,5m for legal fees. Meanwhile, Zanner’s claim against two pension funds totalling R2m, both in the name of Sybille Zanner, have been rejected. The two companies created trust funds for the Zanners’ adopted twin sons after his case went to trial. In 2007, a year after he was acquitted, he disputed their right to have done so, arguing that the companies set up the trust funds without his consent. The money remains in trust.
That same year Byleveld claimed to have solved a string of unsolved murders by linking members of the notorious Elite group of bouncers that had terrorised Joburg and Pretoria. Within a fortnight, the top cop and his team had arrested 14 people in connection with bouncer violence and drug trafficking.
One of them was Paul Kitzman, the most senior Elite member, accused of the attempted murder of Elite founder Jacques Hugo. Kitzman was arrested and charged with assault and illegal possession of a firearm, a practice hand grenade, various controlled medicines, two elephant tusks and a police armoured vest. He was acquitted of all charges.
Kitzman plans to sue Byleveld for R4,7m in damages for wrongful arrest. Weekend Argus understands that on Thursday Byleveld was served a summons against him personally. He declined to comment on either of the cases. All he would say was that any report of his starting a detective agency with Engelbrecht was premature, as he could not make a commitment to any business while these cases were hanging over him.
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Original date published: 12 September 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009131206.html?viewall=1