- JOHANNESBURG (Beeld) -- The
clothes worn by Tanya Flowerday on the night she was killed were apparently
handed back to her parents to be washed, said a source close to the investigation.
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- Flowerday is possibly the country's first victim of a
snuff movie.
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- The "damaged" evidence and the possibility
that only her torn panties were sent for forensic tests could hinder the
case, the source said.
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- The police said on Wednesday that there was no proof
of this, but that such negligent actions would need to be addressed.
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- According to inspector Amanda Roestoff, a police spokesperson,
the station commander of Linden police station would have to investigate
the allegations.
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- Roestoff would not, however, comment any further as the
case was sub judice.
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- A legal expert said that it was legal to possess and
import a snuff movie in South Africa, but that it was illegal to make or
distribute such a film, which sees the victim raped and then murdered on
camera.
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- On Wednesday, it also came to light that Flowerday's
friend, who allegedly arranged the rape and murder for money, had previous
criminal charges against him.
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- Flowerday, 18, who died on the night of Friday June 13,
apparently spent her last few harrowing hours in a house in Fontainbleau,
Randburg.
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- Beeld visited the house on Wednesday were the teenager
was allegedly filmed while being raped by three men - her friend and two
foreigners - and then murdered.
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- The house is occupied by an unemployed woman, a former
art teacher and her two daughters.
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- On Wednesday morning, however, no one was home.
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- From the outside, many of the rooms looked empty and
in one room a number of paintings lay on the floor. Flowerday's body was
found on the sidewalk of a Darrenwood house on Saturday June 14.
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- According to Elizabeth Sopane, a domestic worker at the
Darrenwood house, Flowerday's body was found in a sitting position against
a wall.
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- She said that people who had seen her, at first thought
it was a doll.
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- Sopane said that she heard noises outside the house early
that Saturday morning but that she took little notice.
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- "The dogs barked, but the car pulled off quickly.
I thought it was drunk people." Before his arrest, the suspect worked
for a film company.
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- One of his colleagues said he was a quiet person who
was never late for work.
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- "When police said they were looking for him you
could have bowled me over with a feather. He was the only new chap on the
set and no-one knew him."
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