/ 22 February 2001

PAEDOPHILE?S SON JAILED FOR PERJURY

FLIPPIE van Rooyen, 39, the son of paedophile Gert van Rooyen, has been sentenced to six years in jail by the Pretoria Regional Court on a consolidated charge of perjury. Van Rooyen made conflicting statements to police between March 1995 and November 1999 about the fate of five missing schoolgirls, linked to his father and his father’s lover, Joey Haarhoff.