{"id":8373,"date":"2013-08-02T09:52:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T09:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8373"},"modified":"2013-08-02T09:52:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T09:52:52","slug":"white-farm-murder-victim-suffocated-to-death-in-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8373","title":{"rendered":"White farm murder victim ‘suffocated to death in freezer’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Annatjie van Rooyen, pushed into a freezer alive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elderly crime victim Annatjie van Rooyen suffocated in a freezer she was forced into during a farm attack, Beeld reported on Friday.<\/p>\n

Pathologist Dr Daniel Humphris (SUBS: CORRECT) was reportedly testifying in the Circuit Court in Parys, in the Free State, on Thursday.<\/p>\n

According to the newspaper, Ngope Abram Oupa Mokoena, 47, his wife Mmaditaba Francina Mokubung, 46, and Ezekiele Mtshembelele Mguni, 30, have pleaded not guilty to a number of charges related to the attack.<\/p>\n

Van Rooyen, 76, and her husband Ernest van Rooyen, 77, were attacked in their farm tuck shop in Parys in January, Beeld reported. Their bodies were discovered a few days later.<\/p>\n

Her hands were tied behind her back with shoelaces and her feet were secured with wire.<\/p>\n

Humphris said he had to wait for the body to defrost before he could conduct the autopsy.<\/p>\n

Ernest van Rooyen’s body was found on the floor of the shop. He and his wife had been stabbed.<\/p>\n

The newspaper reported that the court was read a statement Mokoena made the day of his arrest, in which he said he had agreed with “Rasta” (Mguni) to rob the couple because they owed him money for painting work.<\/p>\n

“Rasta hit the old white man and he fought back…. The old woman was still alive when he put her in the freezer,” he was quoted as telling the court. – sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elderly crime victim Annatjie van Rooyen suffocated in a freezer she was forced into during a farm attack, Beeld reported on Friday. Pathologist Dr Daniel Humphris (SUBS: CORRECT) was reportedly testifying in the Circuit Court in Parys, in the Free State, on Thursday. According to the newspaper, Ngope Abram Oupa Mokoena, 47, his wife Mmaditaba … Continue reading “White farm murder victim ‘suffocated to death in freezer’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4656,34,4658,4655,40,4657,4659],"class_list":["post-8373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-annatjie-van-rooyen","tag-crime","tag-ernest-van-rooyen","tag-freezer","tag-murder","tag-ngope-abram-oupa-mokoena","tag-parys"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/annatjie_van_rooyen.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8376,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8373\/revisions\/8376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}