At the time, Anni’s uncle, Ashok Hindocha criticised the Panorama film-makers for not consulting the family and for playing “judge and jury”.

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Dewani, now 40, returned to the UK where he has reportedly found ne w love and is in a long-term relationship with a Brazilian-born model, Gledison Lopez Martins. Mollett also reconstructed, in his apartment, a version of the bathroom in Pistorius’ luxury home where Reeva was fatally wounded when the athlete fired through the door in an apparent rage.The police matched a fingerprint they found on a DVD holder to Inge’s boyfriend Fred van der Vyver. As Inge rented the DVD just hours before her death it means that Fred was in her presence that afternoon. However, he claims that he was at work all day, 50 km away. the time the body is exposed to the elements [here time of death is a factor, unknown in this case, but with a relatively short window either way] He was there that night and as a witness at least should have stayed to assist the police with their investigation.” Look, it’s not like it was an obsession because we still lead normal lives but every spare minute that we get we try and spend on it [the case]. I have not watched a rugby game in three years,” Mollett told the amused audience. Compared to later versions (proven by CCTV, cell-records, etc.) and against his Plea Statement he blatantly lied to them,” say the authors.

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I have always been fascinated by the idea that we are around people all the time, in every day situations but we have no idea what their lives are really like,” says Thamm. “Nearly everyone has something extraordinary about them, a story that would make you think ‘I’d never had known that just to look at them’. We’ve uncovered some of those stories.”

Everything in the book was well researched and tests were done when necessary to prove their suggested version of events. In 2005 het hy betrokke geraak by die uitgewersbedryf, as skrywer, maar hoofsaaklik as ontwerper en redakteur. Dit is daar waar sy waardering vir besonderhede en ontwerpvaardighede geslyp is en wat hy later ook in sy forensiese werk toegepas het. Thomas has dedicated his life to solving these two murders that has, over the last few years, baffled many in what really happened on that Valentine's Day night and what happened to Stellenbosch University student, Inge. Bloody lies, wat gehandel het oor die moord op Inge Lotz wat in Stellenbosch in haar woonstel vermoor is, het wye reaksie uitgelok. Sommige het dit geprys en ander het dit afgemaak as prul.

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Thomas het in 1989 aan die Hoërskool Victoria-Wes matrikuleer. Daarna het hy sy militêre diens by 1 Spesiale Diensbataljon, Tempe, Bloemfontein verrig. Na 'n keuringsproses is hy oorgeplaas na die Pantserskool in Tempe, waar hy 'n jaar lange Junior Leierskapkursus ondergaan het om 'n troepleier vir die Eland 90-pantservoertuig-gevegsregime te word. Thomas Mollett said: “It can only have been put on afterwards. We can’t say when or why he decided to put it on her, we can only say it was certainly not worn at the time she died. Experts Calvin and Thomas Mollett analysed various pieces of evidence for their book ‘Oscar vs The Truth’ - including CCTV stills of the young model as she drove into Pistorius’s estate.There is absolutely no sign of any hole in the vest resulting from the bullet wound to her hip – and the vest is a long one.