Cape Town - A Kraaifontein man has been sentenced to 15 years for murdering Ge-Audrey Green, 19, whose body was found in a drawer under his bed.
Charlton Douw entered into a plea and sentence agreement with the State in the Western Cape High Court on Thursday. In the agreement, it emerged that Douw, 21, tried to kill another woman, Ester Sokupe, in Kotze Street, Scottsville, four months before he murdered Green, whose body was found under his bed in the flatlet behind his family home.
Douw said in the agreement that he had invited Green to his flat on February 7 and they had consensual sex. She started to scream.
“He became worried that his grandparents in the main house would be aware that he had someone in the flat, and (that he) would be chastised for his behaviour,” the agreement reads. “He strangled her in an effort to subdue her screams.”
Two days later, Douw’s mother, Magdeline Douw, and her niece, Mellisa Reiners, went to clean his room and found Green’s body.
On February 11, Douw admitted to Hawks Captain Paul Hendrickse that he had killed Green and had tried to kill Sokupe on October 20.
He had lured Sokupe from her home under the pretext of taking her to her son.
“Once outside her dwelling he… strangled her with his bare hands. A struggle ensued and when she managed to scream for help he ran away and left her,” the agreement reads.
The mitigating factors were that Douw was young, in custody for seven months and addicted to tik at the time of the offences .
Judge President John Hlophe sentenced Douw to 15 years for Green’s murder and 10 years for the attempted murder of Sokupe. The sentences will run concurrently.
Cape Argus