I saw killing - neighbour

A “commotion” outside her neighbour’s house in Parow forced Juanita Moses to look through her bedroom window.

There she saw a woman, Chantel Hartzenberg, jump on to the back of her neighbour, Clyde English.

She heard Hartzenberg say to English: “If I can’t have you, she can’t have you.”

Two days later, she said, she saw Hartzenberg kill English.

Moses was testifying on Tuesday at the Western Cape High Court in the trial of Hartzenberg who is charged with the murder of English and her six-month-old baby.

The court heard previously from English’s mother, Jo-Anne, that Hartzenberg had publicly threatened to kill English.

Moses added that she later saw Hartzenberg deliberately reverse into English’s car.

Moses said on the day of the murder, English was washing his bakkie when she saw Hartzenberg walk towards him. “I realised that she was walking with a knife behind her back. She was walking in his direction,” she said, breaking down on the stand.

“I found the police’s number on my mobile and I planned to dial it if anything happened,” she said.

But under cross-examination, Hartzenberg’s advocate, Lara Joubert, questioned Moses’s version of events, saying: “Everything you said was riddled with errors.”

The State also called advanced life support paramedic, Melanie Carnegie, who was called out to Hartzenberg’s home where she had found both Hartzenberg and her baby on the bed.

“The first question I asked was what happened to her and her baby. She said: ‘I killed him’”. - Cape Times

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