Taliep Petersen Murder: Relative Connections & Najwa’s Condition
By the 19 December, the police had already had some good leads into the case. They had put together a crack task force to find the killers and bring them to justice.
Police started saying that the murder had taken months of meticulous planning an a year long plot had been uncovered. The plot may have been hatched soon after he was stabbed in the neck by a close relative in June.
Naasief Groenmeyer, Petersen’s brother-in-law agreed, saying: “My opinion is that this was a well-orchestrated hit.”
He said that when Talliep had returned from London, he had noticed that the surveillance cameras outside the house were not working.
“He didn’t get a chance to repair them because he had to rehearse for a show on Friday. On Saturday he spent the day with family. I think it means the killers knew Taliep’s schedule,” said Groenmeyer.
He also thought the killers had known Petersen’s domestic worker did not work at weekends.
“She always answers the door on weekdays but would never let anyone through unless they convinced her via the intercom and monitor that the family knew them well. She wouldn’t have let them in after 9pm,” he said. This led Groenmeyer to believe Petersen had known his killers.
“The monitor showing who was at the gate wasn’t working but the intercom system was. Taliep must’ve recognised the voices and buzzed them in. This means he pushed a button which opened a gate that leads to the front door. Taliep also had a habit of waiting with the door open to receive his guests,” he said.
As a result of these circumstances, close family members were asked to undergo lie detector tests. Included were the family members who were at the house at the time of the murder, as a “sloppy” statement had raised suspicion.
At this time it was reported that the police had questioned Taliep’s wife, Najwa Dirks, his stepson Achmat Gamieldien and Gamieldien’s wife, underwent two days of gruelling questioning by police.
Najwa Dirks Medical Conditions
During the week following the murder, it was reported that Taliep’s wife had collapsed a couple of times and had to be hospitalised.
Her father Sulaiman Dirks, stated that his daughter had been hospitalised a few years before for having a nervous breakdown and that the stress since the murder had “worsened her condition”.
It was also insinuated that she had been a psychiatric patient a few years previously, but it was unclear if this referred to the nervous breakdowns.
“For the past two mornings, a nurse has arrived at her house to administer medicine. We are worried about her condition at this stage,” he said.
Observations
At this stage it appears that the murder was definitely more than just a random robbery gone wrong. There seems to have been some deep problems in Taliep’s family. But were they involved? The upcoming court case will reveal all!
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