The man convicted for raping and killing Michaela Williams has been sent to Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital.
Steven Fortune, 49, appeared at the Western Cape High Court on Friday where he was expected to be sentenced.
But instead, Judge Robert Henney informed him he would be going directly from court to the hospital for observation.
“This is to see if he will be declared a dangerous criminal,” Henney said.
The judge told Fortune he will be in the institution for 30 days.
“This will help with the sentencing and to decide if the community must be protected against him. And if he should stay away from the people.”
Fortune was convicted on 2 December 2020 after he pleaded guilty to the murder and rape of his 12-year-old neighbour.
In a statement read by his lawyer De Jongh, he said when he lured Michaela from a crowd on 7 January he knew he would rape and kill her.
“When I was done, I threw two concrete blocks onto the head, then I took a blanket I found close by and tree branches and covered her body and then I left the scene,” he said in hof.
Her body was found in a vacant plot in Schaapkraal the next day.
In 2005, Fortune was sentenced to 20 years behind bars for the rape and attempted murder of an eight-year-old girl who was lured from her home in Hyde Park to the Khayelitsha Cemetery.
The little girl pretended to be dead after being stabbed in the heart and managed to crawl to safety hours later.
Fortune was released on parole last year.