The family of 61-year-old Gafsa Roberts, who was allegedly strangled to death by her own son and her body placed in a wheelie bin, is calling on the Minister of Justice to intervene before he is set free.
Last week a magistrate at the Mitchells Plain Regional Court called for a final postponement into the case against Shakoor Roberts, 24.
The family says the case has been postponed EIGHT times already and that they are afraid Shakoor will be set free because of a technicality.
The matter has stalled as the State wants the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem on Gafsa to rectify the report after the word throttled was spelt incorrectly as trottled.
Neighbours found Gafsa’s decomposed body inside her wheelie in front of her home in Winterhoek Street, Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain on 2 March 2015.
Relatives say the sickly Gafsa was afraid of her son and slept with a knife under her pillow.
Last week the matter was postponed to 8 November for a final postponement.
Gafsa’s daughter, Rushana Adams, has now written a letter to the offices of Michael Masutha, the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, calling for his assistance, saying the justice system is failing them.
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But she says they have received no feedback by on Thursday.
Part of the letter reads: “This case has been postponed for more than eight times and now the judge mentioned that the case will not be postponed again does this mean that my brother will walk on a technicality?
“We refuse to let this murderer come out on a technicality. Please, Minister, we need you to intervene in this case.”
The National Prosecuting Authority did not respond to queries by Thursday night.