Cape Town - International and local media who descended on the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court were disappointed on Thursday when they were prevented from hearing the testimony of the Danish man found with 21 pieces of genitalia.
While most media and several ANC Women’s League members were expecting to hear Peter Frederiksen testify during his schedule-five bail application, Thursday’s proceedings were held in camera to protect the identity and safety of the State’s second witness.
These intensive safety measures, which included a large contingent of heavily armed police officials closely guarding presiding officers and witnesses, as well as watching Frederiksen like a hawk, are believed to have emanated from the shooting of Frederiksen’s wife, and main witness in the case against him, who was gunned down at her home in Lesotho.
The wife, Anna Matseliso Molise, 28 was shot four times in the upper body and died at Tshepong Hospital in Maseru shortly afterwards.
Molise apparently alerted the police to the collection of neatly packaged, catalogued female genitalia parts in a freezer at their home in Langenhoven Park, Bloemfontein.
The 63-year-old Frederiksen is facing three charges of assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm (GBH), one charge of assault GBH involving a minor, the possession and manufacturing of child pornography, the removal of human tissue in contravention of the Health Act and bigamy.
The first witness called to testify in his bail application on Wednesday was immigration officer Nico Breed, who said Frederiksen had made “misrepresentations” on his temporary and permanent residency applications, specifically with regard to a business he supposedly owned.
Further discrepancies included different places of birth, and contradicting nationalities on Danish passports and travel documents, said Breed.
Breed said until the contrary could be proven, Frederiksen’s residency was obtained illegally, and he had made several illegal movements in the country, rendering him illegally in South Africa.