Innholdsfortegnelse for 2024-02-20 i Daily Voice

THE young man accused of raping and killing Monneashia Prins made a chilling confession in court. Mikaeel Oliver, 18, was arrested days after the 11-year-old victim’s family identified her body at the morgue. The meisie from Ithemba Farms informal settlement went missing on Friday, 9 February and was last seen walking with the accused, who is also her neighbour. Oliver returned to the area with muddy clothes that same night. The following day, Monneashia’s body was found in a canal near her Eerste River home; she was covered in mud. Emotion The accused made his first appearance at the Blue Downs Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Oliver appeared calm and showed no signs of emotion, even when he confessed. He has been charged with rape, murder and abduction. When the magistrate…

Avoid “Officers managed to corner him and stopped the vehicle on Racecourse Road between Melomed Hospital and Access Park, Kenilworth, where the suspect jumped out of the vehicle and ran away trying to avoid arrest. “Officers gave chase and he was soon arrested.” Smith says the 40-year-old suspect was charged with possession of a suspected hijacked motor vehicle, kidnapping, resisting arrest and reckless and negligent driving. The elderly passenger was left traumatised and taken by ambulance to Groote Schuur hospital. Smith adds: “This is an example of an effective working relationship between our enforcement agencies and Neighbourhood Watches in communities.”…

BRIAN Diamond, who was shot in the head by evil skollies and left paralysed when he was just three years old, has sadly passed away. Brian has survived against all odds and died in the arms of his mom Ronell on Sunday, just months before his 21st birthday. Brian became a household name for Daily Voice readers in June 2006 when he was struck by a gangster’s bullet while playing outside his home in Heinz Park. Ronell was shot in the buttocks and the gunmen were never found. Brian was declared brain dead, but defied the odds when he miraculously started blinking his eyes and moving his arms and legs, just as doctors were ready to pull the plug on his life support. Since then he had been confined to…