Najwa investigator was always suspicious

The murder trial is being heard in the Cape High Court

One of the investigators in the Taliep Petersen murder case says after examining the safe at the Athlone house where the murder took place, he immediately became suspicious that it was more than just a house robbery. Superintendent Pieter Viljoen is testifying in the Cape High Court in the trial of the widow, Najwa Petersen, and the three men she allegedly hired to have her husband killed.

Viljoen went to the house the day after the murder and asked the accused to show him the safe from which she gave the robbers a substantial amount of cash.

Yesterday, Taliep's daughter from his previous marriage, Jawaahier Petersen, told the court that after Najwa stabbed her dad in April 2006 she behaved like a possessed woman. She says Najwa’s eyes were 'demonic' and she was making sounds like she was possessed.

Taliep's sister also told the Cape High Court that when, Najwa, stabbed him she said if she could not have him, nobody else would. Presiding Judge Siraj Desai ruled that Johnson's evidence, which is mostly hearsay, is admissible.