{"id":45394,"date":"2024-09-27T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/wellingtonse-reeksmoordenaar-kry-8-keer-lewenslank-20240927\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T06:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:06:48","slug":"wellingtonse-reeksmoordenaar-kry-8-keer-lewenslank-20240927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/wellingtonse-reeksmoordenaar-kry-8-keer-lewenslank-20240927\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellingtonse reeksmoordenaar kry 8 keer lewenslank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Die Wellingtonse reeksmoordenaar en verkragter Johan Williams sal nooit weer as \u2019n vry man die lig van die dag sien nie nadat hy verlede week \u2019n stewige vonnis opgel\u00ea is vir sy gruwelike misdade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric Ntabazalila, woordvoerder vir die nasionale vervolgingsgesag in die Wes-Kaap, het bevestig dat Williams agt keer lewenslange tronkstraf plus nog 60 jaar in die hooggeregshof opgel\u00ea is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams is in Februarie vanjaar op 19 aanklagte skuldig bevind. Dit sluit in ses aanklagte van ontvoering, vyf aanklagte van verkragting, twee van poging tot verkragting, drie van moord, \u2019n aanklag van huisbraak met die doel om brandstigting te pleeg en brandstigting, \u2019n aanklag van aanranding met die doel om ernstig te beseer en versuim om aan \u2019n beskermingsbevel te voldoen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams het jong vroue geteiken wat desperaat was vir werksgeleenthede. Hy het aan sy slagoffers werksgeleenthede belowe om hulle uit te lok en dan oorval met bose intensies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie 52-jarige se skrikbewind tussen 2012 en 2018 in Wellington het daartoe gelei dat hy Natalie Jonkers (35), Maria Isaacs (35) en Chantelle Matthyssen (21), wat hy ook verkrag het, ontvoer en vermoor het. Sy modus operandi was dat hy hulle werksgeleenthede belowe het, net om hulle later te vermoor en in vlak grafte te begrawe,\u201d s\u00ea Ntabazalila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHy het vir hul families gelieg en hulle laat glo dat hulle nog lewe deur boodskappe van hul selfone af te stuur. Hy het ook vir van die ma\u2019s gelieg en ges\u00ea dat hy hul dogters gesien het en dat hulle [die slagoffers] in sekere gebiede gebly het, terwyl hy geweet het dit is nie die geval nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams is aanvanklik in 2018 vasgetrek. Hy was glo \u2019n familievriend van Matthyssen, wat oorspronklik van Kuilsrivier is, en het vir haar ges\u00ea dat sy vrou vir haar \u2019n werk as verpakker by \u2019n wynplaas op die Bo-Hermonpad buite Wellington het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Met Matthyssen se aankoms in Wellington het hy haar by die treinstasie gaan oplaai, waarna hulle na sy woonplek is, het Carol Petersen, Matthyssen se ma, voorheen aan <span>Paarl Post<\/span> vertel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSy het my weer gebel toe hulle by sy wendyhuis in Weltevrede aangekom het. Sy het my vertel die kamer het \u2019n bed wat baie soos haar eie bed lyk, maar sy sal op die rusbank moet slaap. Hy het vir my dogter ges\u00ea sy vrou se ouma is glo oorlede en sy moes Citrusdal toe gaan vir haar afsterwe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kort daarna het Petersen onraad begin vermoed toe sy \u2019n boodskap van haar dogter ontvang wat van Williams se foon gestuur is. Haar vermoede dat iets verkeerd is, is verder aangestook omdat die boodskap in \u201cho\u00eb Afrikaans\u201d geskryf is terwyl Matthyssen Engelssprekend is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthyssen se ouers het kort daarna na Wellington gereis en na Williams se woonplek gegaan. Hy wou hulle nie binnelaat nie en het gevlug. Die polisie is verwittig waarna hulle Williams se woning deursoek en op die klere afgekom het wat Matthyssen laas aangehad het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2019n Grootskaalse soektog is begin, waarna Williams gevind is. Nadat die polisie hom ondervra het, het Williams daarna gaan uitwys waar hy Matthyssen se lewelose liggaam onder boomtakke op \u2019n plaas in Wellington gaan stort het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kort hierna het Williams vir die polisie gaan uitwys waar hy die liggame van Jonkers en Isaacs begrawe het. Hy het hulle op dieselfde wyse uitgelok voordat hulle wreedaardig vermoor is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie nie-dwelmgebruiker het ook sy eks-meisie en haar twee minderjarige kinders ontvoer, gepoog om te verkrag en haar herhaaldelik verkrag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHy het die beskermingsbevel wat sy eks-meisie teen hom bekom het, oortree. Hy het ook die families van sy slagoffers geterroriseer deur hul eiendom te beskadig of af te brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWilliams het skuld ontken en sy onskuld deur die hele verhoor volgehou ondanks die feit dat hy aan die polisie die gebied uitgewys het waar hy die liggame van sy slagoffers begrawe het. Hy het aangevoer dit is toevallig dat al drie vroue laas in sy geselskap gesien is, en hy verstaan ??nie hoe hy skuldig bevind is op die aanklagte wat die Staat teen hom ingebring het nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adv. Maria Marshall, adjunkdirekteur van openbare vervolging, het Williams beskryf as \u2019n reeksmoordenaar en verkragter wat geen berou en emosie toon nie. Marshall, asook die regter, Rosheni Alie, het beklemtoon dat Williams \u2019n uiterste gevaar vir die samelewing inhou en dat die gemeenskap se belange vereis dat hulle beskerm word teen \u2019n \u201cbrutale, gewelddadige, manipulerende, sluwe en pretensieuse mens soos Williams\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ntabazalila s\u00ea: \u201cDie Wes-Kaapse direkteur van openbare vervolging, adv. Nicolette Bell, het die ondersoekbeampte, sers. Van Rooyen, en adv. Marshall vir hul uitstekende werk geprys om \u2019n suksesvolle vervolging en vonnis te bewerkstellig in \u2019n saak met \u2019n beskuldigde wat vervolging wou vermy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAdv. Bell het ook die families van die oorledenes geprys vir hul dapperheid en bydrae deur getuieverklarings, wat gehelp het om die skuldigbevinding van die beskuldigde te verseker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bell voeg verder by: \u201cElkeen van hierdie suksesvolle vervolgings is die hoogtepunt van maande en selfs jare se moeisame ondersoek- en vervolgingswerk en is \u2019n voorbeeld van honderde soortgelyke sake wat daagliks suksesvol afgehandel word. Hierdie sake verskaf \u2019n mate van geregtigheid en afsluiting aan die slagoffers en hul gesinne en verwyder gewelddadige misdadigers uit ons strate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marshall hoop dat die vonnis \u2019n sterk boodskap sal uitstuur dat geslagsgebaseerde geweld nie geduld sal word nie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Wellingtonse reeksmoordenaar en verkragter Johan Williams sal nooit weer as \u2019n vry man die lig van die dag sien nie nadat hy verlede week \u2019n stewige vonnis opgel\u00ea is vir sy gruwelike 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