Agency case delay a ‘tactic’

THE State has expressed their unhappiness with yet another delay in the matter involving Kempton Park model agency boss Dawie De Villiers, who is due to be sentenced in the South Gauteng High Court.

The founder of Modelling South Africa (PTY) was found guilty of rape, sexual assault, sexual grooming, fraud, exposure of pornography to children and access to child pornography in February.

Prosecutor Arveena Persad reminded Judge Cassim Moosa that during the previous court sitting, the matter had been postponed for the pre-sentencing report to be heard. However, advocate Riaan Greyling, De Villiers’s new counsel, said the transcripts he had received thus far were incomplete.

“This is a delaying tactic.”Persad told Moosa that the State opposed the postponement for the transcript as De Villiers and his previous counsel had been taking notes of the trial. – ANA