{"id":58772,"date":"2022-03-14T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T07:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/niemand-staan-pa-20220309-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T08:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:03:53","slug":"niemand-staan-pa-20220309-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/niemand-staan-pa-20220309-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Niemand staan pa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Doodse stilte. \u2019n Mens kon \u2019n speld hoor val. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die gemeenskap van Laingville in St. Helenabaai was sprakeloos toe hulle verlede Woensdagaand (2 Maart) op \u2019n gemeenskapsvergadering hoor die ondersoek na polisiebeamptes wat vermoedelik \u2019n plaaslike kind doodgeskiet het, is onopgelos afgesluit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leo Williams (9) se dood was \u2019n baie opspraakwekkende en omstrede voorval wat vir maande in die mediakollig was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Weslander<\/span> het destyds berig oor die gewelddadige onluste wat in Julie 2020 in St. Helenabaai opgevlam het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In hierdie tyd, terwyl openbare-orde-polisi\u00ebring die vrede in Laingville probeer bewaar het, is die jong Leo deur \u2019n dwaalkoe\u00ebl getref terwyl hy in sy oom se huis gesit en televisie kyk het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die koe\u00ebl, wat vermoedelik deur \u2019n polisiebeampte buite in die straat afgevuur is, is dwarsdeur die sinkstruktuur van die huis en het Leo in die kop getref.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leo is met \u2019n ernstige kopbesering in die hospitaal opgeneem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hy is lank deur lewensondersteunende masjiene aan die lewe gehou. Hy is later breindood verklaar en sowat drie weke later het die familie besluit om die masjiene te laat afskakel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die saak is deur die Onafhanklike polisieondersoekdirektoraat (Opod) ondersoek en die gemeenskap van Laingville, wat geregtigheid vir Leo eis, het die afgelope twee jaar toenemend ontevrede geraak oor die feit dat hulle baie min terugvoering oor vordering met die ondersoek kry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thyrone Williams (geen familiever\u00adband met Leo), \u2019n bekende plaaslike gemeenskaps\u00adaktivis wat ook sedert November verlede jaar sy mense as raadslid by die Saldanhabaai-munisipaliteit (SBM) verteenwoordig, het vandeesweek aan Weslander<\/span> ges\u00ea hy moes verlede week die nuus aan die gemeenskap breek dat geen polisielede of enigiemand anders vir Leo se dood vervolg gaan word nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volgens Thyrone het die departement van openbare vervolging die finale ondersoekverslag aan die Vredenburg-landdroshof gestuur, waar besluit is om nie met vervolging voort te gaan nie, aangesien daar \u201cvolgens hulle nie voldoende bewyse teen enigiemand\u201d is nie, s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cD\u00edt volg nadat dit baie belowend gelyk het dat inhegtenisnemings sal plaasvind. Die mense is erg teleurgesteld.\u201d Vervolg op bl.2<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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