Here’s one that will set blood boiling…

More details emerged last week surrounding the murder of Tokai teen Franziska Blöchliger, and now two of the suspects were today granted bail.

Over to TimesLive:

The court heard that because the state had a weak case against the two men‚ there was no reason not to grant them bail.

Westlake community leader Anthea Thebus said that criminals in the community would rejoice that the accused‚ one of whom admitted to being a drug addict‚ were released on bail.

About 30 women gathered outside the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court before the case was heard‚ wearing pink T-shirts with the slogan: “Enough is Enough. Justice for Franziska”.

The group‚ Women of Westlake‚ came from the suburb where the alleged attackers were apprehended.

One of the suspects implicated in the attack‚ the son of a warder at Pollsmoor Prison‚ previously told the court that he wanted to sell her stolen cellphone to buy drugs.

He was high at the time. “All I was interested in was money for drugs‚” he said in an affidavit presented to court.

The prosecution said during their last court appearance that a post-mortem report showed that suffocation and strangulation was the cause of death. Blöchliger had been raped.

One of the men was granted bail of R2‚000 and the other R1‚000.

More here from News24:

As it was a Schedule Six application, the onus was on the accused to provide exceptional circumstances as to why they should be released.

[Magistrate Hafiza] Mohamed ruled that the State’s case was not sufficient to link the two to the crime…

[Franziska] had been robbed of her iPhone, watch, headset, and diamond ring.

The accused are understood to have been linked to the crime through witnesses, and were found in possession of her belongings.

During bail proceedings, prosecutor Renee Uys argued that Moses – whose father is a warden at Pollsmoor Prison – had no fixed address, as he has been chased away from the living area at the Tokai prison due to his involvement in criminal activity.

The State further alleged that Moses moonlighted as a pimp.

Justice must of course take its due course, but you can bet this one will cause outrage right around the country.

[sources:timeslive&news24]