Johannesburg - A police officer in court had to stop a crying woman from attacking three people accused of strangling her daughter and burning her body.
As soon as Kedibone Selesho saw Candice Prevost, 29, her fiancé Ashley de Villiers, 29, and Prevost’s former fiancé Wayne Williams, 36, she started crying and swearing at them.
She stood up just as they were leaving after their brief appearance in the Protea Magistrate’s Court on Friday and tried to hit them.
However, the police officer stood between her and the accused, preventing her from attacking them.
Still angry, Selesho sat down and, still swearing at them, let out a heart-wrenching cry.
People in the gallery looked at her, some asking: “Why did she want to hit those white people?”
Someone in the gallery answered: “They killed her daughter.”
It wasn’t the first time Selesho had tried to attack the accused.
Court officials said she slapped Prevost during the pair’s appearance last year.
Speaking to The Star after the court case, with tears still running down her make-up, Selesho - who arrived in court wearing a T-shirt with Nthabiseng’s face on it - said it was not easy seeing the three accused.
“They make me angry. When I see Nthabi’s child, I’m filled with pain,” she said.
Selesho said that although she’s always composed when she arrives in court, she’s an emotional wreck when she leaves. But she still felt she had no choice but to be there to follow the case, regardless of how much it hurt seeing the three.
Nthabiseng, 23, used to work for a jewellery store, and Prevost was her client.
In September last year, she went to see Prevost at her home in Van Dyk Park, Boksburg, carrying jewellery worth about R300 000. That was the last time she was seen alive.
Charred bones believed to be her remains were found in her burnt car in the early hours of the following day next to the Grasmere toll plaza.
The trio were arrested in Prevost’s house, where they lived.
In her affidavit read during her bail application in October, Prevost confirmed receiving Nthabiseng in her house.
She said they walked Nthabiseng to her car after the purchase of some jewellery and that suddenly Williams strangled Nthabiseng from behind with De Villiers’s assistance.
Prevost said she ran towards the two men, pulling them off Nthabiseng. She said De Villiers pushed her to the ground and both men told her she would be next if she interfered.
The Star