A self-confessed 28's gang member has denied the existence of the Terrible Josters gang in Uitsig, in a suspected attempt to deceive the court.
Brandon September, 22, stunned the Western Cape High Court on Monday as he took the stand in his own defence in the ongoing murder trial of four-year-old Thea Lewis.
According to the State’s case, September and Nigel Prinsloo are the two gunmen from the Terribles gang who opened fire near little Thea’s home on 18 April 2018 in an attempt to kill four men in the yard.
The gunmen missed their intended targets and Thea was struck in the chest.
The little girl had been playing with her two-year-old sister, Hope, in the yard of their Uitsig Avenue home.
She ran to her mother and showed her the hole where the bullet had entered her chest before she collapsed in the house.
VICTIM: Thea Lewis. Picture supplied
A month later, four members of the Terribles allegedly killed three people inside a hokkie. Two of the victims were witnesses in Thea’s case.
In his testimony on Monday, September first told the court he knew nothing of the Terribles gang in Uitsig and denied being affiliated with them.
He says he became a 28s prison gang member in 2016, but denied participating in gang activities outside the mang.
Standing in a Nike tracksuit, he proudly told the court he has not worked since leaving school six years ago.
His mother apparently works for him while he apparently sits at home all day smoking hookah pyp.
On the day of Thea’s murder, he said he was at his home in Astra Avenue, Uit-
sig, and was with his relatives when a teenage neighbour came to tell them that Thea had been shot.
SCENE: The four-year-old girl was killed at her Uitsig home
He denied knowing Prinsloo and told the court he only knew of The Young Ones, the Ama Don’t Cares and the G-Unit gangs.
“I don’t know about Terribles,” he claimed.
But during cross-examination, September gave himself away when he named the Terribles and was cornered by the State advocate who accused him of intentionally denying the existence of the Terribles in order to protect his gang.
“You did not name the Terribles earlier and you specifically left them out, but is it not true that in Uitsig the Young Ones gang is affiliated with the 28s gang and the Terribles are affiliated with the 28s gang, which you have admitted to being a member of?” she asked.
Nervously biting the insides of his cheeks, September replied: “ Ja, mevrou, die Terribles is Agge[28s gang].”
The trial continues.