/ 1 September 1999

ALLEGED SERIAL KILLER’S CASE POSTPONED

ALLEGED Capital Park serial killer Samuel Sidyno on Tuesday pleaded not guilty in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court to seven charges of murder. The charges relate to the discovery of six bodies, and the pointing out of a seventh by Sidyno, on Capitol Hill and in the Magaliesberg, in Pretoria in December 1998 and January this year. Sidyno, who was out on parole after serving a prison sentence for rape, was arrested on January 6 in the vicinity of several of the graves of his victims. the victims included two women and five youths, aged between 12 and 16. Pleading not guilty to the murder charges, Sidyno told the court he had “drunk a lot and not eaten much” in 1998, and therefore could not remember much. The case was postponed to October 25.