Siam’s mom ‘feels pain’ of alleged killer’s family

THE mother of slain Siam Lee said yesterday she understood the pain the alleged killer’s family was going through.

“I really do,” Carmen Nan Lee said outside the court after the accused appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court yesterday. “I pity his poor mother.”

She identified the suspect’s mother last week after the first hearing. While greeting supporters at the end of a corridor in the court building, Lee said, “There’s his mother”, as the man’s family walked past her. However, the two women did not exchange any greeting.

“They’ve lost a son and I’ve lost my little girl, but he’s still there,” Siam’s mother said in the court car park, before driving off with private investigator Brad Nathanson’s team, who also attended the hearing.

“I am filled with, not anger, just pain,” said Lee.

Siam was found dead and burnt in a sugar cane field near New Hanover in mid-January after she had last been seen at a house, believed to be a brothel, in upmarket Durban North.

It is claimed that mother and daughter worked there.

At court yesterday, her alleged killer, in a grey suit with gold buttons and glossy navy blue shirt, blew kisses and waved at his family.

During proceedings, the State added more charges, including one of rape, which, because it is a sexual offence, means the alleged killer cannot be identified until he pleads.

Magistrate Mohamed Motala said the accused would be called to appear again on Tuesday.

PICTURE: LEON LESTRADE/AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY (ANA) Carmen Nan Lee, centre, the mother of Siam Lee, was emotional as the man accused of kidnapping and murdering the 20-year-old last month appeared at the Durban Magistrate’s Court.