‘I WANT TO LOOK HIM IN THE EYE’
Oct 23, 2020
4 minutes
BY JANA VAN DER MERWE
IT’S been a long, hard nine years of watching and waiting, hoping and praying. Nearly a decade of pain and loss, anger and despair, of months and months spent driving around with a picture of his daughter’s alleged killer pasted in the back window of his car in case someone recognised him.
And now, finally, Dries Venter has some form of closure – but the end of the nightmare comes with no happiness, just a sense of relief that justice may be done at last.
“It felt good seeing him in ankle cuffs,” the 69-year-old says. “It’s a relief that he’s back in the country but now old wounds are
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