IN THIS SUNDAY’S WHICH BBC STAR WAS CAUGHT BALLS-DEEP IN A DUCK? WE NAME NAMES… ONLY IN THIS SUNDAY’S ‘AXE KILLER SON SLAUGHTERED FAMILY TO INHERIT FORTUNE’
Don’t worry… it wasn’t me!
ACCUSED: Henri ( and family before triple murder A MAN will go on trial accused of butchering his parents and brother with an AXE to get his hands on their multi-million pound fortune.
Henri van Breda, 21, stands to inherit a share of £13million from the brutal killing of his parents, along with his sister Marli, who was left fighting for her life in the frenzied attack at their luxury family home in Cape Town, two years ago.
The 18-year-old schoolgirl, who survived the slashing of her jugular vein, is listed as a state witness against her brother.
But prosecutors are still agonising over whether to call her to give evidence or not.
The teenager reportedly remembers nothing about the 3am bloodbath in January 2015 that left her an orphan and put her in a coma.
She and Henri have only had supervised contact since the grisly triple murder.
The family’s friends and social media feeds suggested they were a close-knit unit who enjoyed all the exotic travel and outdoor pursuits their huge wealth could buy.
Martin Van Breda had amassed a fortune from property and investments and after seven years in Perth and on the Sunshine Coast, he, his 55-year-old wife Teresa and three children moved back to South Africa for a business deal in the months before the killings.
According to court papers, a furious family row was heard at their double-storey home on the exclusive De Zalze golf estate in the hours leading up to the attack.
When forensic officers were dispatched to the home the next morning, they were confronted with a scene of unspeakable violence.
The body of 21-year-old engineering student Rudi was found on a blood-soaked bed next to his father Martin, 54. Both had suffered fatal blows with an axe to their heads.
Mum Teresa had been cut down on the balcony of the same upstairs room – also dead from a gaping head wound – along with Marli, who was discovered close to death with a gash to her neck.
Only Henri, then aged 20, escaped the furious onslaught with minor cuts – described in reports as “self-inflicted”.
The trial starts on April 24. ACCUSED: Henri ( and sister Marli ( who survived