The man accused of raping and murdering six-year-old Stacey Adams has ditched his bail application.
Relief could be seen on the faces of the little girl’s mother, Sasha Lee Adams, 25 and her ouma who were also at the Mitchells Plain Magistrates’ Court on Thursday where Christopher Brown’s legal aid lawyer dropped the bombshell.
A nervous-looking Brown emerged from the court holding cells dressed in a black hooded top.
DROPS BOMBSHELL: Murder suspect Christopher Brown. Photo: Supplied
His lawyer, only identified as Ms Isaacs, walked over to him in the dock and took his fingerprints.
State prosecutor Darren Johnson told the court the matter was on the court roll for a formal bail application.
But Isaacs turned around and told Magistrate Alwera Bezuidenhout her client would not be proceeding with his bail application.
“I have been instructed my client wishes to abandon his bail application,” she said.
Bezuidenhout then turned to Brown asking: “Do you confirm?”
Brown answered: “Yes.”
Johnson told the court the DNA report and the crime scene photographs were still outstanding, adding that the post-mortem had been completed and a report received.
The matter was postponed to 8 October for further investigation.
Outside court, Lameez Adams said the family was coping, but did not want to comment on Brown’s decision to ditch bail.
CRUEL: Stacey was found in a shallow grave in Eastridge. Photo: Jack Lestrade
Stacey’s half-naked body was found buried in a shallow grave next to Brown’s Wendy house in De La Rey Street in Eastridge on Sunday, 24 June.
Brown and Stacey’s mother, Sasha-Lee, lived together while Stacey lived with her granny opposite the road.
Sasha-Lee was not at home, and Brown allegedly confessed he was angry at the woman for going to a party the Friday night, and he took his anger out on Stacey when she came looking for her mother on Saturday morning.
He allegedly confessed to trying to sodomise the child’s dead body but was not able to.
On the day of Brown’s arrest, community members tried to burn down his Wendy house and the main house, which belongs to his aunt.
His family has since been moved to a town outside Cape Town for their own safety.