Cape Town - The case against accused child killer and alleged occultist Daniel Smit has hit another delay after the court heard this week that he had not yet been allocated a bed for psychiatric evaluation.
Smit, accused of the murder of 13-year-old Jerobejin van Wyk, appeared in the Klawer Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning.
He faces charges of murder, kidnapping, assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, failure to report an incident to the police and defeating the ends of justice.
National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila said: "(The) Smit (case) has been postponed until August 16, 2022 for the accused to receive space at Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital for observation. He is currently number 87 on the waiting list."
During the previous court appearance, Smit had been number 93 on the waiting list and was sent to Valkenberg by recommendation of psychologist CWA van Zyl, who had told the court he wanted the roles of the personality disorder and specifically psychopathy to be determined.
Court details have so far indicated that Smit - after he knocked Jerobejin down with his bakkie for allegedly stealing fruit - took the teenager back to his home, where he had given the boy food and something to drink before “breaking his neck”.
“He apparently bumped Jerobejin and pulls him into his vehicle and takes him to his home, knowing very well that people will know about the incident. In his home, he apparently gives him bread and cool drink and then breaks his neck,” Van Zyl’s report read.
Thereafter, apparently unbeknown to Smit’s 20-year-old daughter, who was at home with him at the time but had not witnessed anything, Smit stored Jerobejin in a standing freezer before he and his daughter headed to Vredendal, “conducting business as usual”.
Cape Times