SHE’S still haunted by that terrible day when she was called to identify the body of her 10-year-old nephew who’d been found in a shallow grave still wearing his school uniform.
Elroy van Rooyen was one of 22 young boys murdered in a killing spree that sent shock waves across South Africa between 1986 and 1994. The boys were found dead on the Cape Flats after being raped and strangled.
Norman Afzal Simons (56) was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Elroy and suspected of having committed the others, although Elroy’s was the only murder the state could pin on him.
He was sentenced to 35 years behind bars and qualified for