Four months after the horror axe attack on the Van Breda family in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, no one has been arrested for the murders.
Martin (54), Teresa (55) and their eldest son Rudi (22) were killed on January 27, 2015 with an axe in their house on the De Zalze estate in Stellenbosch, and their killer has since been still at large. The couple’s only daughter Marli (16) was attacked with the axe, and barely survived the incident. Their youngest son Henri (20) had only several marks on one of his arms.
Rapport reported the weekend that the arrest of a suspect in the axe killings has been postponed after the docket was taken over by senior detectives in the Western Cape to ensure a watertight case.
Eric Ntabazalila, spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), said the research team already handed the murder docket to the NPA in March and was ready to make an arrest. The NPA returned the file shortly thereafter to the detective branch in Stellenbosch, for the team to finalize outstanding investigation. Rapport reported “senior captains and colonels” of the Western Cape police are looking at the file and a “few problems” were pointed out.
New clues were found and it’s believed that more people must be questioned so that the task force can build a “watertight” case against the suspect (s) to save any embarrassment for the police and prosecuting authority in this high-profile case.
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