Jesper Otterbeck clutched a laminated photograph of his late son, Aksel Otterbeck, to his chest, or held it aloft every time his son's name was mentioned during the trial of the man accused of driving drunk and causing the young volunteer's death.
He had flown from Stockholm, Sweden, to hear for himself the testimony of his son's last moments before he was run over in a leafy suburban street in Table View, Cape Town, on December 14, 2016.
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