Jesse Hess murder accused 'has audacity to talk back' in court
On August 30th
2019 the community of the Western Cape was awakened by the sad news of how
Jesse Hess and her grandfather were murdered. Jesse Hess who was a first year theology
student at UWC was raped before she was murdered.
Yesterday
was a tough and gruesome day for the Hess family as the two suspects accused of
the heinous homicide appeared at the Bellville Magistrate court. The two man
accused of the double homicide appeared yesterday for the first time in court
for the two murders. David van Boven who is a distant relative to the
Hess family and his accomplice appeared in front of the judge yesterday and one
woman in court called them“Dirty and heartless Pigs”. One of the sources reported
that one woman said “although some of us were not close to Jesse or her
grandfather we are in deep pain. What made the people in court angry was the
fact that Van Boven still had the audacity to talk back when the court asked
him to remove his hoodie showing that he has no remorse to what he did.
Both men are
repeat offenders, and each face a charge of murder and robbery with aggravating
circumstances. They will remain in custody until February 12 when they are
due to appear again.
By Chuma
Matiwane
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