AT LEAST six vroue have now come forward with claims to have taken out protection orders against a Garden Route artist arrested for the brutal murder of an ex-police officer.
Those protection orders painted the accused Bevan van Druten, who made an appearance in the magistrate’s court in Plettenberg Bay on Wednesday, as a ‘scary, scary man’.
Cutting a lonely figure in the dock, Van Druten, 53, was formally charged with the murder of ex-police detective, Nicky van Heerden, who’s brutalised body was found lying in the sand at Keurbooms Beach on Sunday night. A bakkie that is believed to belong to the accused, was found right
next to Van Heerden’s body, who police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg said, was riddled with injuries.
Van Heerden, whose given name was Anneke,…