A 64-year-old Hout Bay resident on Wednesday testified in the Western Cape High Court that she saw two of the four alleged shooters on trial for the murder of six-month-old Zahnia Woodward at the time she believed the shooting occurred.
According to Carol Opperman she had read in a newspaper that the shooting happened at 5pm on 30 December 2016 in Ocean View and she felt the need to come forward to tell the court that Christopher ‘Trompie’ September and Tashwill Kriel were outside their homes in Hout Bay at the time.
The two men along with Larry Johnson, Morne May and Mirriam Johnson are on trial for murder and attempted murder.
Zahnia was shot in the head in a drive-by shooting while sitting on her father, Bradley Robyn’s lap outside their home in Carnation Road.
Ocean View police record the time of the incident at 5.50pm.
Opperman says she had read that the incident occurred at 5pm.
MURDERED: Baby Zahnia Woodward
She claims that September and Kriel were standing on the corner close to her home until 5.30pm.
“I remember coming home from work before 5pm. My boss dropped me and both were there.
“Trompie was just standing there and Tashwill was drunk in the passage.
“I went to the mobile (shop) to buy corned beef and bread, made me a sandwich and tea and realised there was no milk for my tea and went back to the mobile. They were there and the purple VW Golf was there,” she claims.
Kriel testified the previous day that he had not been with September at all on that day and had only seen him drive by in a white VW Golf.
But Opperman insists: “If he says he was not with him and that the car was white, he is lying. Maybe he was so drunk that he did not realise that September was there.”
The case continues.