Love tangle murder bail hearing on hold
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Chevonne Liebenberg and Poena Visser before the shooting that left Visser and his father dead. Chevonne Liebenberg and Poena Visser before the shooting that left Visser and his father dead.
Johannesburg - A father who allegedly shot dead his daughter’s boyfriend and the young man’s father in Benoni last week will have to wait until Friday to find out whether he will be granted bail.
Retief Liebenberg of Benoni was arrested last Thursday in connection with the shooting of 19-year-old Dewalt “Poena” Visser - his daughter Chevonne’s boyfriend - and the boy’s father Dewalt Visser, 46, in his home.
“There was allegedly a domestic dispute between Mr Retief Liebenberg and his daughter’s boyfriend,” said police spokeswoman Captain Julia Claassen.
The Beeld reported that Liebenberg did not approve of the relationship between Poena and Chevonne as he had heard rumours that Poena was taking drugs. He arrived at his home in the Ebotse Golf Estate in Rynfield, Benoni, that day to find Poena in the house, after he had apparently banned his daughter from seeing him.
Claassen said Poena then called his father to come over to the house, after which Liebenberg allegedly “shot them both fatally”.
He appeared in the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court yesterday where his case was postponed.
Beeld also said Liebenberg had tried to take out a court interdict to prevent Poena from seeing his daughter.
Liebenberg’s brother, Chris, this morning declined to comment.
A case of animal abuse was also believed to have been opened against Visser sr about two years ago but he had yet to face a charge.
Karen Rheeders of the Benoni SPCA said:
“This is all from what they told us; he said the Rottweiler looked stupid with a long tail and later I believe he took out a knife and cut the dog’s tail off.”
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