27 November 2007
Cape Town — The horror three-hour long robbery at Glenn Agliotti's house in March ended with one of the robbers urinating over him, his fiance and his 17-year-old daughter.
This morning Agliotti told the Wynberg magistrate's court the explicit details of the attack, which also saw his fiance being sexually molested by the intruders.
The man on trial for the murder of mining tycoon Brett Kebble came face to face with the three men allegedly behind the violent robbery: Selby Khumalo, 28, Vincent Ditlhase, 30, and Mncedisi Makamo, 25.
Agliotti arrived at court in a silver Mercedes-Benz, in low-key fashion. Unlike before, he was not greeted by a gauntlet of journalists and photographers.
According to his evidence, he and his fiance, Lani Kyprianides, were sleeping in their bed on March 5 when they were awoken at about 3am.
A man switched on the lights and walked over to Agliotti. He remembered specific details about his attacker such as the fact that he wore tan gym gloves and that he was carrying a 9mm pistol, not a revolver.
"Don't look at me or I'll kill you," the robber said to Agliotti, who then rolled over on to his stomach.
Then, the robber said sarcastically: "What a nice house. You have lovely watches."
According to the charge sheet, at least four watches were stolen from Agliotti that morning. They included a R170 000 Rolex and a R75 000 Frank Muller watch.
Agliotti described how his attackers had then stuck a gun into his ear and pistol-whipped him at the back of the head.
The robber then jumped on to Agliotti's back and tied up his hands.
Agliotti said that what had really stuck in his memory had been the foul verbal abuse the gang hurled at him.
The robbers then turned their attention to Kyprianides. Continuing with the verbal abuse, they pulled back Kyprianides's head and punched her in the face. She was then sexually molested.
He told the court that he had been able to smell liquor on his attacker's breath.
Then the gang had brought his daughter into the bedroom and put her on the bed with him and Kyprianides. His daughter was then tied up.
Then he had heard his daughter screaming: "No, no, no!" He had thought they were sexually assaulting her and he had pleaded with them not to harm her.
Agliotti said the ordeal had lasted about three hours and had ended when one of the robbers urinated on three of them. The trio had then been covered with a duvet.
"At this point I thought they were going to kill us."
Agliotti's ex-wife, Vivian, had then also been brought into the bedroom. Vivian had been tied up and her mouth had been taped. "She was punched in a face with a firearm."
Agliotti, who is also on trial for being a head of a drug-smuggling syndicate, said that once he had heard the gates closing, he had managed to untie Kyprianides using his teeth. She in turn freed him and the others.
During the attack, Agliotti said, the robbers had kept asking him how much money was in his bank account and what cars were in the garage.
Agliotti told the court he had called Andrew Leask, of the Scorpions.
The Scorpions had been the first to arrive at the scene, followed by the SAPS.
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