Johannesburg - The 26-year-old woman who allegedly poisoned her children and tried to pin their deaths on her partner abandoned her bail application on Monday.
It’s not known what may have led to this sudden turn of events, seeing that Esther Moyana was more than willing to apply for bail when she first appeared at the Heidelberg Magistrate’s Court on October 20.
On that day, Moyana had just been released from hospital, was barefoot and still in the dirty dress she had been wearing when she was found next to her dead children.
“I want to apply for bail, but I don’t have any money because I am unemployed. I would bring an application if I had a job,” she said at the time, shivering in the dock in her summer dress.
A Legal Aid lawyer was organised and was to consult with her and prepare for the bail application.
But, on Monday, the lawyer indicated that Moyana had abandoned her bail application without giving a reason.
Moyana allegedly killed her children, a one- and three-year-old on the evening of October 16.
When
she was found in an abandoned building in Zonk’izizwe, Ekurhuleni, on the morning of October 17 with her dead children, she blamed her husband for the children’s murders.
She told police she was from Mozambique and that her husband had called and asked her to visit him with the children in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga, where he lives.
Moyana claimed that when she arrived at her husband’s house, she found that her husband had another woman, whom she fought with.
She claimed the woman then chased her and the children away. Her husband then allegedly put her and the children in a car, drove from Mpumalanga and dumped them in Zonk’izizwe in the middle of the night.
The man then allegedly gave them poisoned juice before driving off.
Moyana’s story was found to be a lie as she lives in Zonk’izizwe and her family lives there too.
Police traced her husband, who knew nothing of the allegations. It was also found that he does not have a car.
Moyana’s father, who arrived in court with his son, refused to speak to the media, except to say that they were badly affected by what happened.
The man, who lives in Zonk’izizwe, said he had spoken to the media before but no one had helped him with anything - without indicating what it was.
Gauteng police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini said the cause of Moyana’s children’s death would be revealed during the trial.
Moyana is expected back in court next week.
The Star