Brakpan - The case against a man accused of murdering his four-year-old niece has been postponed, reports said.
On Monday morning the 23-year-old suspect appeared in the Brakpan Magistrate's Court, where the case was postponed to January 7.
According to reports, angry community members tried to break down a gate at the court on Monday morning and confronted police vans.
The uncle has allegedly confessed to strangling Jasmine Pretorius and then stuffing her body under his bed.
Jasmine and her older sister, six, were visiting their father Morné Pretorius for the weekend.
The children had been left in the care of their grandmother, uncle and another man believed to be his boyfriend, by their father who apparently went out with his girlfriend.
The man believed to be the boyfriend of the uncle sent a BBM at about 7am on Saturday, asking for assistance in finding the little girl.
According to a source, the boyfriend had returned home from work to discover that Jasmine was “missing”. Morné returned home after he was called with the distressing news.
The uncle allegedly claimed he had no knowledge of where the girl was, neither did the grandmother.
A source confirmed to the Pretoria News that the uncle had later confessed to killing Jasmin after intense police questioning.
“He first told police that he had sold the girl to Nigerian drug dealers for drugs, but after further police examination he again changed his story. All the while hundreds of people and police were out looking into every possible lead to find Jasmin,” a source close to the investigation said.
Police will conduct a post-mortem to determine if she was raped or sexually assaulted. - IOL