JOHANNESBURG: Child porn accused Dawie de Villiers will deny knowledge of the e-mail correspondence between him and his ex-wife over pornographic pictures she said she discovered on his computer in 2009, his lawyer, Jacques Pienaar, told the high court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
“My client will deny he is the author of these e-mails presented in court. They were not written by him,” Pienaar said to De Villiers’s ex-wife during cross-examination.
Earlier, the mother-of-two told the court she discovered explicit photographs of one of his alleged victims, a woman, in 2009 – the same year their marriage ended.
She said some of the photos showed the woman half-naked. Some of them were explicit, while others showed her completely naked.
She e-mailed them to the woman for an explanation, and to De Villiers. The woman told her that De Villiers sexually assaulted her and that he had forced her to pose for photographs while naked.
De Villiers had allegedly threatened the woman and told her he would post the photographs on the internet if she told anyone else about them.
The ex-wife read out one of De Villiers’s e-mailed responses about the photographs, in which he cursed the woman and threatened to kill her.
Judge Cassim Moosa asked Pienaar who wrote the e-mails, if it was not De Villiers himself. “We do not know,” said Pienaar.
Cassim turned to the ex-wife and asked her if what was said by the defence was true.
“I cannot believe this… It is incorrect.”
When asked by Pienaar why she used e-mail to communicate with De Villiers, instead of talking to him directly, the ex-wife said e-mail was their preferred way of communication at the time. The trial continues today. – ANA