FORMER murder accused Fred van der Vyver yesterday relived his last hours with his girlfriend Inge Lotz before she was found bludgeoned to death in her Stellenbosch flat.
Van der Vyver was testifying in his R46 million malicious prosecution suit against the minister of police.
His legal team has already led evidence from shoeprint and fingerprint experts and a forensic pathologist, to show that "wilfully false" claims were made by police investigators.
Van der Vyver's testimony appears to be aimed at showing that his alibi - that he was at work at the Old Mutual head office in Cape Town at the time of the killing - was so strong that he should have been excluded as a suspect.
Van der Vyver repeated the evidence he gave in his 2007 criminal trial, that he and Lotz, a master's student at the University of Stellenbosch, had started going out seriously in November 2004.
On the night of March 15 2005 he slept over at her flat, which he often did ahead of a class at the university on Wednesday mornings.
Van der Vyver told the court he then went to work after the class, and was at Old Mutual in Pinelands until just after 6pm.
This included the so-called afternoon "window period" in which the state claimed in the criminal trial that he would have had the chance to drive to Stellenbosch and commit the crime.
He said that evening, after trying repeatedly to contact Lotz by phone, he drove to her parents' house in Welgemoed to pick up a set of keys for her flat, so he could check she was all right.
While he was at the Lotz home, his flatmate Marius Botha arrived with the news that she was dead.
The next morning police took him to their offices in Bishop Lavis, where he explained where he had been the previous day. - Sapa
Last hours with slain student
FORMER murder accused Fred van der Vyver yesterday relived his last hours with his girlfriend Inge Lotz before she was found bludgeoned to death in her Stellenbosch flat.
Van der Vyver was testifying in his R46 million malicious prosecution suit against the minister of police.
His legal team has already led evidence from shoeprint and fingerprint experts and a forensic pathologist, to show that "wilfully false" claims were made by police investigators.
Van der Vyver's testimony appears to be aimed at showing that his alibi - that he was at work at the Old Mutual head office in Cape Town at the time of the killing - was so strong that he should have been excluded as a suspect.
Van der Vyver repeated the evidence he gave in his 2007 criminal trial, that he and Lotz, a master's student at the University of Stellenbosch, had started going out seriously in November 2004.
On the night of March 15 2005 he slept over at her flat, which he often did ahead of a class at the university on Wednesday mornings.
Van der Vyver told the court he then went to work after the class, and was at Old Mutual in Pinelands until just after 6pm.
This included the so-called afternoon "window period" in which the state claimed in the criminal trial that he would have had the chance to drive to Stellenbosch and commit the crime.
He said that evening, after trying repeatedly to contact Lotz by phone, he drove to her parents' house in Welgemoed to pick up a set of keys for her flat, so he could check she was all right.
While he was at the Lotz home, his flatmate Marius Botha arrived with the news that she was dead.
The next morning police took him to their offices in Bishop Lavis, where he explained where he had been the previous day. - Sapa
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