Another good story to tell South Africa...

Bloemfontein - Shocking details of the attack and murder of an elderly Free State couple emerged during a bail application of one of their attackers on Thursday.

Toon, 72, and Rienie Swanepoel, 70, were shot dead on their farm Waaikraal, near Bainsvlei, Bloemfontein, on 12 January 2015. Their bodies were found in a wooded area on their property. A television, firearms and a vehicle were stolen.

Three suspects were later arrested on charges of murder, rape and robbery. The stolen items recovered.

Netwerk24 reported on Friday that one of the suspects, Jacobus Motsamai Bitterbos, 25, applied for bail in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on Thursday.

The other two suspects, Fana Hendrik Ntshudi, 19, and Jackie Louw, 19, abandoned their bail bid. They will remain in police custody.

Torture

Investigating officer Kobus Coetzee told the court that the couple were tied to a single bed and tortured for hours. The men took turns to rape Rienie while her husband was forced to watch.

Coetzee testified that the suspects told him they had shot Toon in the leg to bring him under control because he was fighting back.

They were then taken to a remote part of the farm where Toon was shot dead. Rienie was then made to lie on her husband's body before she was shot dead.

The scene resembling an exercise for target shooting, Coetzee testified.

The prosecutor in the case argued that Bitterbos was a repeat offender and should be denied bail. A decision will be made on Friday.

For crimes like these we need the Death Penalty. What a way to die .....

I don't think "leaders" (in any country) live in the same country as the people they were elected by to lead...this dissociation from the lives lived by the great majority of people around the world will lead to a reckoning far worse than that inflicted by the "leaders" upon that great majority of people...

Disgusting...everyone is some-one's child or brother or sister or mother or father...and no-one would want this fate to befall anyone...