'I'm your nightmare,' Andre Loots told a senior Johannesburg attorney in a May 2021 email. It was one of 54 abusive messages the wealthy businessman sent to the lawyer and his attorneys over six weeks.
The case is one of several with their roots in a divorce battle between the lawyer and his estranged wife, whom the lawyer says is having an affair with Loots.
A criminal case for alleged theft of documents, which the National Prosecuting Authority declined to pursue; “If [she] did not agree with the content of [Loots'] disparaging communications or if she did not align herself with his views or agree with his methods, one would have expected her to have said so specifically and unequivocally,” said Maier-Frawley.
She added: “In so doing, he exhibited a profound lack of restraint and/or temperance, all under the guise of defending his own honour and offering support and assistance to [the lawyer's wife] purportedly in defence of her honour. Yet no measured or legally responsible approach was adopted.
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