South Africa: Van Breda - Blood Spatter, Stains Tell a Different Story

12 September 2017

Blood spatter and blood stains do not support triple murder accused Henri Van Breda's version of what happened the day his parents and brother were bludgeoned to death, the Western Cape High Court heard on Tuesday.

Blood stain pattern analyst Captain Marius Joubert told Judge Siraj Desai that the blood stains and patterns do not correlate with the 22-year-old's sequence of events as given in his police statement. Joubert would, however, not rule out the possibility of staging, he said.

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