Model boss denies emails to ex-wife
CHILD porn accused Dawie de Villiers will deny the email correspondence between him and his ex-wife over pornographic pictures she said she discovered in his computer in 2009, his lawyer Jacques Pienaar told the high court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
“My client will deny he is the author of these emails presented in court. They were not written by him,” Pienaar said to De Villiers’s ex-wife during crossexamination.
Earlier, the mother-of-two told the court she had discovered explicit photos of one of his alleged victims, a woman, in 2009 – the same year their marriage ended.
She said some of the photos showed the woman half naked, while others showed her completely naked.
She had emailed them to the woman for an explanation, and to De Villiers. The woman told her that De Villiers had sexually assaulted her, and he forced her to pose for photos while naked. The ex-wife read out one of De Villiers’s emailed responses about the photographs, in which he cursed the woman and threatened to kill her.
Judge Cassim Moosa asked Pienaar who wrote the emails if it wasn’t De Villiers himself.
“We do not know, my Lord,” said Pienaar.
Judge Moosa turned to the exwife and asked her if what was said by the defence was true.
“I cannot believe this, my Lord… it is incorrect.”
When asked by Pienaar why she used emails to communicate with De Villiers instead of talking to him directly, the ex-wife said email was their preferable way of communication at the time.
The trial continues today.