/ 15 February 1999

‘BLACK WIDOW’ ARRESTS IN JO’BURG

BRITAIN’S “Black Widow” murder case could be at end with the arrest in Johannesburg of two men named in court as the hitmen hired to kill British private detective Barry Trigwell. The Sunday Times reports that Paul Petrus Rus (36) and Lorenz Sundkvidst (44) were arrested on Friday night after the government received an official request for their extradition to Britian to stand trial for murder. Trigwell was bludgeonded to death at his home in 1995 and his South African-born wife Ethel Anne Trigwell was sentenced to life imprisonment for her part in the murder in 1997. According to evidence heard in the trail of Trigwell, dubbed the “Black Widow”, a former Johannesburg casino and nightclub owner Alex Mitri said Trigwell asked him to kill her husband, known as “Barry the Bastard”. Mitri said he hired Rus and Sundkvidst to do the deed.