Griekwastad trial continues
The trial of a 17-year-old youth accused of killing a family on their farm near Griekwastad is expected to continue in the Northern Cape High Court on Wednesday.
The trial of a 17-year-old youth accused of killing a family on their farm near Griekwastad is expected to continue in the Northern Cape High Court on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Prosecutor Hannes Cloete said the teenager's testimony was strange.
He had told the court he heard nothing when Marthella Steenkamp, 14, was being attacked a short distance from where he said he was at the time.
"You want the court to believe for one moment that you heard nothing of Marthella's attack... 15 metres from where you were?" Cloete asked.
"Yes, Honourable," he answered.
Marthella, her father Deon Steenkamp, and her mother Christel were shot dead on April 6 2012.
The youth faces three murder charges, an additional charge of raping Marthella and another of defeating the ends of justice.
Cloete asked him why he, as a functioning and composed individual, did not think of phoning the police about the attack on the farm while hiding.
"You are agile with a cellphone. You had various contacts on it, only the push of a button away. People that could help, the police.
You did not think to phone? That cannot be true," said Cloete.
"That was how I acted at the time," the youth responded.
-Sapa