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Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren, according to Dries Venter, was a “normal boy”, he was a good guy to be friends with and family with.
Then after a few months, that statement changed. Jansen van Vuuren began beating and abusing Venter’s daughter, Andrea.
The family obtained a restraining order against Jansen van Vuuren, but as the former head of the SAPS investigative psychology section, Gérard Labuschagne, explained, the court order was violated several times and van Vuuren was never charged or imprisoned for the transgressions.
Due to Jansen van Vuurens ‘record of not being caught by the law, the physical abuse did not stop there, it stopped when Jansen van Vuuren allegedly stabbed Venter outside his compound in Fourways, Gauteng’, and used the same knife to deal to commit suicide.
Two years later, Jansen van Vuuren fled the country in May 2013, days before his trial for the alleged murder in 2011 began.
After seven years on the run in Brazil, Jansen van Vuuren was captured, arrested and extradited to South Africa.
For Dries Venter, his presence reopens old wounds.
For Andrea’s friends, family, and those working on the case or for those who were working on the case, the arrest and extradition are a great joy. Lawyer JJ du Toit, who no longer practices, says his greatest retirement gift would be for Van Vuuren to have his day in court.
Jansen van Vuuren is scheduled to continue his trial on November 27, 2020. This will be the first time in seven years that Venter will see Jansen van Vuuren with his own eyes.
“I am so relieved that he is back in South Africa, I hope that justice can now be done,” Venter said.
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