Meghan Cremer murder accused ran from roadblock the night she was killed, court hears & More Trending News

• Meghan Cremer’s Toyota Auris was pulled over at a roadblock in Wynberg the night she went lacking.
• Murder accused Jeremy Sias was driving the automobile and ran off earlier than his blood alcohol degree was examined.
• He was apprehended and later launched as he was below the authorized restrict.

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Jeremy Sias kicked off his footwear and ran from a roadblock when he was pulled over whereas driving Meghan Cremer’s automobile on the night of her murder.

And whereas he was apprehended and examined for suspicion of driving below the affect, he was later launched and allowed to drive off in her Toyota Auris, waving at the officer who had examined him after he was handed again the keys.

This, regardless of him not having a driver’s licence.

Traffic officer Donne Fernandez testified in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday that she had pulled Sias over on 3 August 2019 throughout a roadblock on Wynberg Main Road at 22:51.

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After he had blown into the breathalyser, it indicated he had consumed alcohol and she requested him to accompany her to the visitors inspector for a studying to be achieved.

“While walking across the road, I held on to the driver’s left forearm. He then pulled out of my hold, kicked off his shoes and ran,” she testified.” 

Gesturing to Sias in the dock, Fernandez said:

Police and visitors officers pursued him – eight minutes later, they returned with him in the again of a police van.

“When they brought him back, he said his side is sore. I asked the officers what happened. They said that while they were chasing him, he fell.”

Fernandez stated Sias had recognized himself as Jerome Adams from Sweet Valley Farm in Philippi.

“I had asked him why he ran. His answer was, ‘Ek is bang vir die boere’ [I am afraid of the police],” Fernandez stated.

Inspector Jade van Niekerk did Sias’ blood alcohol studying. At 0.17mg/l, he was under the authorized restrict of 0.24mg/l.

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“I handed his keys over to my inspector as I didn’t want him to drive further,” Fernandez stated. “He wasn’t over the legal limit, but he had consumed alcohol.”

She confirmed that he didn’t have a drivers’ licence. There have been 4 different folks in the car, she remembered – a lady and three males.

He had instructed her he had borrowed the car “from a friend” and that they have been on their approach to a nightclub in Church Street, referred to as Wickets.

Fernandez had returned to the roadblock, the place she apprehended a drunk driver. As she left the scene with the suspect, she noticed Sias.

“The accused waved at me while driving off. He had been given his keys as he was not over the legal limit.”

Drive

Judge Elizabeth Baartman questioned this, asking why somebody was allowed to drive off with no licence.

Fernandez stated the operation was centered on motorists driving below the affect.

During cross-examination, Sias’ advocate, Bashier Sibda, stated his shopper denied that he had fallen and injured himself, claiming that the accused had in some unspecified time in the future been assaulted by police.

Fernandez stated she had no information of this.

According to Sias, he had walked to Wickets to attempt to discover a good friend to drive the automobile. He did not discover one, however was handed the key by Van Niekerk as he had not been over the authorized restrict.

Van Niekerk testified that he couldn’t recall if he had returned the key or if it had been eliminated from the bike seat the place he had positioned all the confiscated keys.

Before Sias had pushed off, Cremer’s colleague Brian Chikaka, who labored as a driver at Woodstock Bakery, had noticed her car at the roadblock in the neighborhood of his condominium block.

“I thought she was in trouble so I moved closer to the car,” he testified.

When he peered inside, he realised he did not recognise the occupants. When Chikaka tried to talk to them, they swore at him and chased him away.

“She never told me she borrowed people her car. I went to a police officer and said I recognised this car… I know the CX number plate and I had bought the mag wheels on it,” he stated.

He had tried to telephone her, however his calls weren’t going by. He additionally noticed a blue canine blanket, belonging to her pet, behind the again seat, confirming to him that this was her car.

The policeman assured him that the automobile wasn’t going anyplace. Chikaka went to the Wynberg police station to report his suspicion that “something happened to my boss”.

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“The police said there was nothing they could do at that point because the car wasn’t reported stolen yet.”

When he returned to the roadblock, the car was gone.Cremer was not at work at 06:30 the following morning. He returned to the police station and reported her lacking.

Sias on Monday pleaded not responsible to premeditated murder.

Murdered

According to the State, Cremer was murdered in her cottage at Vaderlandsche Rietvlei Farm in Philippi, the place Sias was employed as a common employee.

Sias faces additional fees of aggravated theft, theft, and obstruction of justice, in that he allegedly dumped Cremer’s stolen iPad in a rest room and destroyed her cellphones to keep away from being traced.

Cremer, 29, was strangled with a blue ribbon. She went lacking on 3 August 2019 and was believed to have been assaulted and killed that day. Her physique was found on 8 August – Sias identified her physique at the scene in bushes in Olieboom Road, Philippi.

The blue ribbon used to strangle her was nonetheless round her neck, palms, and toes.

Initially charged alongside Sias, Charles Daniels and Shiraaj Jaftha, have been accused of hiding Cremer’s automobile whereas looking for a possible purchaser. Their try to promote it, nonetheless, fell by as they might not produce the registration paperwork.

The pair had been arrested two days after Cremer’s disappearance whereas in possession of her Toyota Auris. Meghan’s physique was present in the early hours of 8 August.

Sias on Monday, by Sibda, admitted to having an “over fondness” for automobiles. He claimed he  took Cremer’s car for a joyride after discovering it with the keys in the ignition, not figuring out the car belonged to her or that she had been murdered.

The trial continues.

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