WE KNOW WHO KILLED INGE LOTZ

[Pat A. Wertheim]

The Cape Argus
We know who killed Inge Lotz: private eyes
11 December 2007, 12:40

This Article: http://www.capeargus.co.za/?fSectionId= ... 298C812829


Two private detectives claim they know who killed Stellenbosch student Inge Lotz and why, and have laid charges of intimidation and obstruction of justice against two police officers who they claim knew the details and did nothing about it.

Daryl Els and Christian Botha, private detectives appointed by the family of Lotz's boyfriend, Fred van der Vyver, said a witness to the murder had made a second statement to them recently in the presence of his lawyer.

The alleged witness is currently in jail on drug and murder charges.

On Tuesday Botha said that he and Els had laid charges at the Stellenbosch police station on Monday.

He said they had known about the witness and what he had said before Van der Vyver's murder trial had begun and that policemen who also knew about it at the time had done nothing to investigate further.

Lotz was brutally murdered in her Stellenbosch flat on March 16, 2005.

Last month, Van der Vyver was found not guilty of her murder in the Cape High Court by Judge Deon van Zyl and two assessors, who slammed the police investigation into the case.

Last week, private detective Niel van Heerden, of the firm George Fivaz and Associates, also laid charges of obstruction of justice and perjury against top investigators involved in the case.

Els and Botha, as well as Van Heerden, have accused members of the police team of lying under oath and of withholding information pertinent to the case from the court.

Els told the Cape Argus on Tuesday that according to the witness three killers had entered Lotz's apartment on the day of her death. One person was an acquaintance of hers.

"According to the witness … there were six people in total, but three entered the flat," he said.

"We have reason to believe their motive was to get money for drugs. All six are known to us and most of them are in jail at the moment waiting to appear on similar charges of murder, robbery and drug dealing."

Els and Botha also claim that the witness had been visited in jail by two police officers shortly after Van der Vyver was charged and told to "change his story" or face the consequences.

That was after he had already made a statement to them in 2005 saying he was involved in the murder.

Els said the reason why nothing was found to have been stolen from Lotz's flat at the time of the murder was that something had gone wrong and that the killers had fled before they could take anything.

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Arie Zeelenberg has done a literal translation of and asked me to post an article from "Die Burger" in African that has not yet been translated to English by the news media.
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Lotz, Gangmembers Confess:

The article states that Darryl Els and Christian Botha the past two days have spoken with two members of a group called the “tik”gang which litterally means beatgang but I assume it is slang for something different.

A women claimed to have been present during the murder. (For me it is not clear whether the PI’s spoke to two gang members AND the woman or just to two members of which one was the woman)

De gang consisted of 6 members (5 male 1 female) they claimed to have followed Inge from the university to her apartment in order to steal her laptop and cell phone.

They claim to have been able to get access because one of them knew Inge.

Three of them have entered the apartment and three of them waited outside in a white Toyota Tazz. Two of those waiting outside approached the apartment after a while, then one of the other three came running out with a remote control in his hand shouting; “there is trouble get out of here”.

The two went up the stairs towards the apartment when the remaining two gang members came out one carrying a knife.

The female member has looked in at a window and saw a woman lying on a couch while blood dripped from her arm.

The two have run away and the man has assisted the woman in climbing over a fence using a pillar as a support.

The woman was warned of and threatened not to speak about the case in particular not to mention the leader of the gang because he was dangerous and could kill her.

She was also threatened with the same gun Inge Lotz was apparently beaten with on the head.

The recent statements concur with earlier statements made on the 20th of June 2006 taken by police inspector Deon Clive de Villiers.

[Pat A. Wertheim]

Mike Grimm analyzed the wounds on Inge Lotz's head. Last August he wrote a report for the defense in which he stated that the wounds were indicative of a handgun as the murder weapon. It looks like Mike was right on target with his conclusion. I believe Kasey is in possession of three reports Mike wrote detailing his examinations of evidence in this case. By some strange coincidence, a little birdie told me those reports might comprise next week's email newsletter, "The Weekly Detail." If you don't receive the Detail, subscribe now on this website's home page.