“Djy! is djy j*s?”
These were the words allegedly uttered by the girlfriend of a gang member as they came under attack from the Terrible Josters gang in Belhar.
The woman, who cannot be named, took the stand at the Western Cape High on Tuesday where she described the attempted murder of Brandon “Mablou” Dickson on 18 September 2012, during the ongoing trial.
She told Judge Owen Rogers that on that day she was walking with her boyfriend and a friend from the Airport Mall when Mablou suddenly ran away “jumping over walls”.
She says when he later met up with them in De Mist Street, he said that “Tyrone and Fabian Constable wanted to kill him”.
According to a previous witness, the cousins were hitmen for the Terribles and were sent to kill Mablou, who was a member of the Junior Mafias gang.
She says Mablou managed to dodge the hitmen, but while standing in Batavia Street counting money that he owed her mother, Fabian appeared and fired a shot at them.
“The bullet went through my legs and made a mark on the pavement. I swore at him and said: ‘ Djy! Is djy j*s?’,” the woman told the court.
She said Fabian chased Mablou through the streets and fired several shots at him, hitting him in the leg and also wounding a young boy.
“The police came to the hospital, but he didn’t want to make a case because he told the cops that one 28 [prison gang member] doesn’t make a case against another 28. I made
a statement,” the witness testified.
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Several months later, Mablou was shot in the head and killed in the parking lot at KFC in Belhar.
The previous State witness told the court that after the failed attempt to kill him, Fabian and Tyrone spotted Mablou on the back of a bakkie and quickly fetched a gun in Delft and then Fabian shot him.
His girlfriend told the court on that day, she was registering her baby boy at Home Affairs.
During cross-examination, the woman was questioned on various aspects of her testimony which did not appear in her original statement.
But the sterkgevriet vrou told lawyers she could not be expected to accurately remember a statement she made six years ago and that taking statements “was not her work”.
Fabian’s lawyer accused her of lying, but she responded: “I was on the scene when he shot Brandon. Fabian ran past me. I know what happened and Fabian knows what happened.”