Durban - A security supervisor who saw the assault on former Royal Marine Brett Williams at Kings Park stadium last year, was grilled about his recollection of the incident in the Durban Regional Court on Wednesday.
Blayne Shepard, 24, his brother, Kyle, 26, and friends Andries van der Merwe, 24, and Dustin van Wyk, 24, are on trial for the murder of Williams and on other charges relating to events at Kings Park Stadium on March 23, last year.
All have pleaded not guilty.
On Wednesday, Keith Seach, who gave his evidence-in-chief in September, was challenged by the Shepards’ defence advocate, Christo van Scalkwyk SC, about why he had left out crucial information in his witness statement.
Seach had testified that he saw Williams being assaulted in two different incidents.
In the first, he saw Grant Cramer hold Williams in a chokehold and in the second incident he saw four men attack him.
Cramer was arrested but the State withdrew charges against him.
Seach said Williams was being kicked, punched and stamped on by attackers but he did not see who did what but saw “feet going in”.
He said he saw a big man, who he identified in court as Blayne, punch Williams on the right side of his head.
Seach did not identify any of the men during an identity parade held 12 days after the murder.
Van Schalkwyk asked Seach about why he did not record in his statement that some security officers and the general manager for Fidelity Security had been assaulted during the attack.
Seach replied that he did not think it was relevant.
Van Scalkwyk said Seach had also withheld other information from the police when he made the statement.
The advocate also pointed out “discrepancies” in Seach’s testimony and the statement and accused him of “changing his evidence”.
He said Seach told the court after the first incident with Cramer, “pretty boy”, who was identified as being Van Wyk had come up to the security officials to ask about a missing gold chain.
But in his statement, Seach had said Cramer asked about the chain.
Seach said on Wednesday that both Cramer and Van Wyk had asked about the chain.
He also admitted that he had only referred to a “bald man” who punched Williams and had not said the man was “big sized”.
The trial continues.
The Mercury