When police arrived at Reghard Groenewald’s Welgemoed home, he knew he was being arrested for “Tannie Hillary’s” murder.
Cape Town - Groenewald, 23, is on trial at the Western Cape High Court for the murder of Eversdal accountancy tutor Hillary van Rooyen.“When we left the station for Welgemoed, the sun wasn’t even out. We arrived at the house in Poussin Street in Welgemoed and knocked on the door. The accused opened the door and identified himself.
Groenewald pleaded not guilty to the murder, but he admitted to hitting Van Rooyen with a pot plant on May 9, 2017. In his confession, Groenewald said he met Van Rooyen while attending Stellenberg High School with her son, Luke van Rooyen. He said he met her again at Luke’s going away party in March, 2017. Luke was moving to London and he, Groenewald, was planning to move to Thailand.
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