Judgment is expected in the sexual assault, rape and fraud case against model agency boss Dawie de Villiers in the high court sitting at the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
On September 28, the court heard closing arguments in the case against the founder of Modelling South Africa (PTY), who is accused of rape, sexual assault, indecent assault, sexual grooming, possession and accessing of child pornography as well as fraud and theft. The charges date back to 2010.
De Villiers also faces a charge of intimidation arising from an email in which he said he would kill his accuser.
During the trial, Advocate Jacques Pienaar for De Villiers said the words expressed in the email conversation between De Villiers and Yolande Smit were merely an angry response to the allegations of sexual assault made by an aspiring model. The accused and Smit had been in a six-year relationship.
In the email De Villiers said that he would kill one of the girls who had accused him of sexual assault.
Pienaar called Smit to the witness stand to back up his claim that the email contents were nothing more than angry talk.
Smit said that De Villiers only said he would kill his accuser because he was angry. Smit said she had contacted the complainant who told her that the accused had tried to force himself on her.
The State told the court that there was enough evidence to convict the former model agency boss given the number of people who testified against him.
De Villiers denies all the allegations and maintains that his accusers are conspiring against him.
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