Delia Adonis, a coloured woman, has spent the weekend in tears after charges against three men, who she claimed had assaulted her during a racist attack, were withdrawn on Thursday.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a bitter end to a trial almost a year in the making for the Cape Town cleaner who feels she has been denied justice.<\/p>\n
Constable Andy Hendricks will learn his fate on Monday after he was arrested last year for allegedly accepting a bribe from one of the accused, Chad de Matos.<\/p>\n
Police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Andr\u00e9 Traut said the internal disciplinary hearing against Hendricks will conclude on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe outcome thereof will be a matter between the employer and the employee. The criminal aspect of the case is still being heard in court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hendricks allegedly accepted the bribe and promised to make the matter against De Matos and his co-accused \u201cdisappear\u201d.<\/p>\n
William Booth, the attorney who represented the three men in this case, said evidence showed that Adonis, 52, had fabricated \u201cmaterial aspects\u201d involving his clients.<\/p>\n
He said his clients had been unfairly demonised and wrongfully accused after it was, in fact, Adonis and her son who had instigated the attack.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Nathan Johnson likened the trio to the Waterkloof Four, who were convicted of murder of an unidentified vagrant in Pretoria\u2019s Moreleta Park in 2001.<\/p>\n
But on Thursday, during a court appearance at Wynberg Magistrate\u2019s Court, the Director of Public Prosecutions Office revealed that the charges against De Matos and company had been withdrawn.<\/p>\n
This was after Booth submitted a docket, which included evidence collected by a private detective, to the office of the director. In it, it was revealed that a number of independent witnesses had \u201cdirectly contradicted the evidence of Adonis and her son\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdonis and her son were in fact the instigators as they were responsible for the attack. Adonis\u2019s son was armed with a broken bottle and she with a broom,\u201d Booth said.<\/p>\n
Adonis said she wasn\u2019t even aware that the three had appeared in court.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we started this, why am I the one who was hurt?\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: IOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Delia Adonis, a coloured woman, has spent the weekend in tears after charges against three men, who she claimed had assaulted her during a racist attack, were withdrawn on Thursday. It\u2019s a bitter end to a trial almost a year in the making for the Cape Town cleaner who feels she has been denied justice. … Continue reading “‘Racist attack’ charges withdrawn”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[818,566,12020,12019],"class_list":["post-19585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cape-town","tag-coloureds","tag-private-detective","tag-racist-attack"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19586,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19585\/revisions\/19586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}