George - A George mother accused of brutally stabbing her 29-year-old son to death during an argument in their family home appeared in the local magistrate’s court on Monday.
Southern Cape police spokesman Captain Malcolm Pojie said the 44-year-old woman, Sabina Biggs, was arrested on August 14 after the body of her son, Maurice Biggs, was found in their home in New Dawn Park in Pacaltsdorp on the outskirts of George during the early hours of the morning.
Pojie said the two had allegedly been arguing when the woman pulled out a knife and allegedly stabbed her son in the left side of his chest.
“It is alleged that he had stolen and sold among other things the woman’s cigarettes and a memory card,” Pojie said.
The woman believed her son was selling the items to buy drugs. When she accused him of this, he allegedly slapped his mother who subsequently retaliated by allegedly stabbing him.
Pojie said witnesses called for an ambulance following the incident, but when emergency personnel arrived on the scene, the young man had already succumbed to his injuries.
“They (paramedics) tried to resuscitate him, but they could not.”
The mother was arrested and appeared in the George Magistrate’s Court for the first time last Monday. The matter was postponed to Monday for further investigation.
While she briefly took her place in the dock, the matter was again postponed to August 29 for further investigation.
The accused was remanded.
This was the second major incident involving violence between parents and children on the Garden Route this month.
On August 14, a Mossel Bay father allegedly drove over his 21-year- old daughter with a light delivery vehicle at their family home in Tarka in Mossel Bay following an argument with the young woman’s mother.
The police said the father allegedly sped off in the vehicle following the argument and when the young woman tried to stop him, he hit her and proceeded to drive over her.
The father fled the scene and the injured woman was admitted to a local hospital in a serious, but stable condition.
Police are investigating a case of attempted murder.
Police are also looking for the father, who disappeared after the incident.
The Biggs family tragedy stands as a stark reminder of the Lavender Hill mother, Ellen Pakkies, who strangled her tik-addicted son, Adam, to death in 2007.
She was arrested and given a three-year suspended sentence and community service during which time she become a community worker.
Cape Argus