Cape Town - The parents of Toufiq Joseph arrived at the Cape Town Magistrates’s Court early on Tuesday morning to face the man accused of killing their son.
Seated in the gallery of Court 16, the pair waited for David Forbes to enter the dock to face a murder charge in connection with the shooting at the Engen garage in Gardens on Saturday.
Forbes entered shortly before 10.30am where the court heard he had appointed another attorney, Advocate Pete Mihalik, to assist his lawyer Ross McKernan in the matter.
State prosecutor Dail Andrews then said the State would be asking for a postponement of the formal bail application and that they would be opposing bail.
McKernan said these developments were new as they had been informed on Monday that the State would not be opposing bail.
The matter then adjourned for State and defence to discuss the way forward.
Meanwhile, outside court, a group of about eight people gathered, protesting and waving posters calling for “no bail” for Forbes.
Forbes, a consultant to Ultra SA, being hosted in the city in February, allegedly shot Joseph in the parking lot of the Engen garage in Orange Street on Saturday afternoon.
Then he drank a soft drink and smoked a cigarette while he waited for police.
Following his court appearance on Monday, Forbes, who is being held in the Caledon Square police cells, was due to be assessed by the district surgeon and treated for a cut on his forearm.
Meanwhile, after the Joseph family spent two difficult days organising the necessary documentation to get Toufiq Joseph’s body released from the morgue, he was laid to rest in Mowbray on Monday.
Joseph’s grieving father, Ebrahiem Joseph, said on Monday: “I don’t know what went wrong there. No matter who that man is or where he works, he didn’t have the right to kill. He will get justice in this life and the next.”
He said he would attend all Forbes’s future court dates along with his family. He still had no idea what could have motivated the shooting.
“My son was killed. He didn’t have a gun. He was sitting in the car.”
Updated 1 February 2015: Article updated to correct name from Ultra Music Festival SA to Ultra SA.
Cape Argus