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Van Breda defence questions crime scene investigation
Advocate Botha has told the court that officers first at the scene of the crime missed blood stains in and around the family home.
Murder-accused Henri van Breda at the Western Cape High Court. Picture: Monique Mortlock/EWN.
CAPE TOWN The legal team representing triple-murder accused Henri van Breda has pointed out that the first officer to arrive at the crime scene missed blood stains in and around the family home.
Defence advocate Pieter Botha has been cross-examining first responding officer Sergeant Adrian Kleynhans.
Kleynhans has admitted he doesn't have a good memory and that he may have made a few mistakes in his initial statement. One of these includes his description of the then emotional state of the accused.
Botha showed the court zoomed-in pictures taken of the crime scene in which some blood spatter can be seen inside the house and on an outside wall.
Kleynhans has admitted to not noticing those blood stains.
Kleynhans says he noted several observations, including spotting valuables on the ground floor, which led him to believe no one broke in.
The officer has admitted he was wrong to have stated no one could have entered the property after Botha pointed out it is possible to scale the walls.
Botha has argued discrepancies in Kleynhans' statement, including not noticing the blood stains and making assumptions about van Breda's emotional state, all attempted to show a robbery never took place.
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Conservative author Ann Coulter drew ire from south of the U.S. border over the weekend after she sent a tweet saying that North Korea warheads capable of reaching the Mexican city of Tijuana would be a workable compromise of an increasingly unsettled international saber-rattling situation.
The tweet, which was liked more than 3,000 times by Monday, follows news of a series of failed missile tests North Korea has performed in its pursuit of extending the reach of its warheads. Despite those efforts, experts say North Korean missiles remain incapable of reaching U.S. land.
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But the suggestion made by Coulter struck a nerve with many Mexicans who share the border with San Diego, including Tijuana mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum. On Twitter, Gastelum called her out and demanded respect for the citys citizens.
Coulters tweet drew a lot of unprintable obscenities from Mexicans who accused her of stoking xenophobia and hate. A lot of those reactions were in Spanish, including one saying, Typical Trump follower, full of dumb ideas and hate.
Does Coulter realize that, geographically speaking, Tijuana is so close to the border that any missile strike against the Mexican city would also impact San Diego? Some people on Twitter wondered about that.
Would she apologize? Dont hold your breath.
Coulter is unapologetic about her far-right views on immigration and border security. Her supporters appreciate her candor. Her critics say she stokes anti-immigrant and xenophobic fears.
Just last week, Coulter backed out of a scheduled appearance to speak at UC Berkeley after police expressed security concerns from protests planned for her arrival and after several groups pulled their sponsorship.
In a tweet, Coulter called the UC Berkeley cancellation a dark day for free speech in America.
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