A man wearing a black top was captured on camera withdrawing money from missing Constable Frances Rasuge’s bank account days after she disappeared, the Mmabatho Circuit Court heard on Wednesday.
A man withdrew money from three adjacent automated teller machines (ATMs) in the Pretoria city centre using Rasuge’s Absa debit card, Absa fraud investigator Shaun Niewoudt testified at William Nkuna’s trial for Rasuge’s murder.
Cameras captured a man, wearing a black top and blue pants, withdrawing money on August 31 last year — four days after Rasuge disappeared.
Bank records showed withdrawals of R40, R1 000, R500, R300 and R100 from Rasuge’s account at the three ATMs within eight minutes.
The machines are on the corner of Pretorius and Andries streets in the Pretoria city centre.
Earlier, Superintendent Nick Pitsoane testified that Nkuna had told him he knew Rasuge’s personal identification number as well as that of her twin sister, Wilhelmina.
Although he had telephonically confirmed Wilhelmina’s number with her, he had been unable to confirm that the number Nkuna claimed was Rasuge’s was indeed hers, the court heard.
The trial is to resume on Thursday, with the defence cross-examination of Niewoudt.
In other testimony on Wednesday, Rasuge’s mother told the court Nkuna had threatened to kill Rasuge and himself.
Answering questions from the state, Caroline Rasuge said she had called Nkuna on January 1 last year, to ask him to leave her daughter alone as they had been fighting.
”I asked Willy [Nkuna] to go away from Nyadi [Frances],” she said. ”He said to me, ‘I will kill her and afterwards I will kill myself.”’
Rasuge’s mother said she has not spoken to Nkuna since. — Sapa