Axe attack girl on the mend

150127. Cape Town. Police forensic investigators are seen on a murder scene at De Zalze Gholf Estate in Stellenbosch. Three members of a family were alledgedly hacked to death by another family member. Picture Henk Kruger/Cape Argus

150127. Cape Town. Police forensic investigators are seen on a murder scene at De Zalze Gholf Estate in Stellenbosch. Three members of a family were alledgedly hacked to death by another family member. Picture Henk Kruger/Cape Argus

Published Mar 4, 2015

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Cape Town - The survivor of the Stellenbosch axe murders, a 16-year-old girl, knows that her parents and oldest brother “are in heaven”, Beeld reported on Wednesday.

“She misses her family a lot,” said a statement issued by relatives of the Van Bredas on Tuesday.

They said that the girl “looks very good and the wounds have almost healed completely”.

She has not been able to make a statement to police yet.

The 16-year-old girl was struck by an axe in an attack at her family’s home on the De Zalze estate near Stellenbosch on January 27 which left her father Martin van Breda, 54,mother Teresa, 55, and brother Rudi, 22, dead.

The girl survived an axe blow to the head and a severed neck artery and had not been allowed any visitors for a month. Her family was only allowed in from last Thursday.

Her brother Henri, 20, also survived.

The girl’s guardians said Henri was relatively well, given the circumstances.

“He is in good hands and receives support to cope with this absolutely traumatic and tragic incident.”

The family, and especially Henri were aware of the allegations against him in the media.

Out of respect for the police investigation he would only respond at a later stage.

Police handed the house back to the family on February 28.

Nobody has been taken into custody yet.

Sapa

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