Momberg used k-word 48 times

The Randburg Magistrate’s Court yesterday heard of the severity of Vicki Momberg’s crimen injuria charges and how they were an infringement on the dignity of the police officers and 10111 operators that she swore at and called the derogatory k-word.

In February, Momberg, 48, pictured, was caught on camera calling a police officer the k-word while he was assisting her after a smash-and-grab incident in North Riding, Johannesburg. At her previous appearance, the state said Momberg was seen on the video using the k-word 48 times.

While delivering his heads of argument yesterday, Prosecutor Yusuf Baba told the court that crimen injuria consisted of the unlawful, intentional and serious violation of the dignity or privacy of another. “If one calls someone a k **** r, there will be injuria,” Baba read from a judgment from a case from 1976.

“The term is derogatory, is offensive to blacks and causes humiliation.”

Momberg sat in the dock in a blue jersey with her head down.

Baba read his arguments which said she was charged with four counts of crimen injuria for insulting police officers and 10111 operators by calling them “useless k ***** s” when they were attempting to assist her after she was reportedly involved in a smash-andgrab incident earlier on in the evening of February 3, 2017.

“She was heard saying ‘am I speaking to a f ***** g k **** r again’ when she called 10111 a number of times,” Baba read.

When giving her testimony during the trial, Momberg said that she did not see the face of the person who smash-and-grabbed her, but she remembered that it was a black person.

In her testimony, Momberg said: “As far as I know I was lashing out at everyone, but it’s words I could have said”.

Baba said during cross examination, Momberg said that she didn’t understand how she could have used the k-word so many times and it could have been exaggerated. – ANA