The Mitchells Plain cop who secured four life sentences for convicted killer Christopher Brown has been awarded Detective of the Year at the SAPS National Excellence Awards.
Last year Detective Sergeant Randall Davids scooped the provincial awards and at the weekend, he came out tops again.
In a statement, SAPS says Davids’ excellent detective work has set him apart: “The member is meticulous and expedient with his investigations.
ACCOLADE: Detective Sergeant Randall Davids.
“This was evident in his ability to link two separate cases and amass enough evidence to secure a conviction for a rapist-murderer, who was handed down four life sentences at the high court within 11 months.”
Davids got Brown to confess to the murder of six-year-old Stacey Adams in June 2018, when her body was discovered in a shallow grave next to his Wendy house in Tafelsig, while residents were rioting and
baying for his blood outside.
Davids then linked Brown to the 2015 murder of his ex-girlfriend Thulisa Lavisa in Khayelitsha after the case had gone cold.
PRISON: Christopher Brown
In May 2019, Brown entered a plea and sentencing agreement at the Cape High Court where he admitted that he assaulted and strangled 19-year old Thulisa.
She had left him because he abused her, and when she came back to collect her clothing, he beat her up and strangled her.
He hid her body under their double bed.
Brown also admitted that he raped and strangled little Stacey because he was angry at her mom, his girlfriend, for going to a party without him.