A homeless man has testified that accused killer Alan Gietzmann offered him a cellphone and a CD player to hold down Gietzmann's beauty queen ex-girlfriend while he raped her.
Gietzmann, 23, allegedly asked Isaac Landsberg to "do him a favour" by taking part in 17-year-old Caryn Lindesay's gang rape less than two weeks before the young woman was bludgeoned to death on May 9, 2003, the Cape High Court heard on Tuesday.
The state, represented by advocate Anthony Stephen, contends Landsberg was one of six homeless men Gietzmann approached to rape or murder Caryn after she broke up with him.
Landsberg described how he and his wife, Betty, had been sleeping outside a Bellville furniture store with their young daughter on April 28, 2003, when he was woken by a car horn in the early hours.
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He said a man, whom he identified as Gietzmann, had called him over to his "beige" car.
"I thought it was someone giving soup or blankets ... I went to him in the hope that he would give me something like bread."
"He asked me if I could do him a favour, and I asked him what sort of favour."
"He said his girlfriend was treating him badly and he wanted to get back at her."
Gietzmann, a mechanic, had proposed that Landsberg lure the unidentified girlfriend from her home so that she could be raped, Landsberg said.
"He said I must hold her tight while he rapes her and then he will hold her so that I can rape her. I told him that I can't do that... I've never been in jail," he said, adding that Gietzmann had then asked him if he knew anyone who would help him.
Landsberg said he had told Gietzmann to speak to his friend "Soon", after which Gietzmann gave him five cigarettes and went on his way.
Asked by Gietzmann's counsel, William Booth, why he had given his friend's name to Gietzmann, Landsberg said he had "just wanted him (Gietzmann) to go away".
"It was a terrible thing that he asked me to do," he said.
He said he approached the authorities after he recognised Gietzmann's face in a local newspaper and read about Caryn's murder.
Gietzmann has pleaded not guilty to Caryn's murder, as well as to six charges of attempting to incite or procure murder, one count of aggravated robbery for the theft of Caryn's cellphone and one count of attempted bribery.
The case continues before Justice Denis van Reenen. - High Court Reporter
- This article was originally published on page 1 of Cape Argus on June 01, 2005
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