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Article: 'I couldn't watch video'; Van der Vyver says he hired same movie as girlfriend.(News)
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- Cape Argus (South Africa)
- Article date:
- October 19, 2007
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By FOUZIA VAN DER FORT
Court Reporter
Fred van der Vyver, charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Stellenbosch University student Inge Lotz, said he could not bring himself to watch The Stepford Wives, a movie Lotz had hired hours before she was found murdered.
A month after the murder, Van der Vyver hired the movie from The Video Place in Stellenbosch, the Cape High Court heard yesterday. But he "did not have the heart to watch it", Van der Vyver said.
State prosecutor Carine Teunissen said it was rather strange that he would hire the movie from the same place as Lotz and not watch it.
Van der Vyver told the court that a private investigator, hired by ...