Two private detectives claim they know who killed Stellenbosch student Inge Lotz, the Cape Argus reported on Tuesday.
The two had laid charges of intimidation and obstruction of justice against two police officers who they claim knew the details and did nothing about it.
Private detectives Daryl Els and Christian Botha had been appointed by the family of Lotz’s boyfriend, Fred van der Vyver.
They said a witness to the murder had made a second statement to them recently in the presence of his lawyer.
This alleged witness was currently in jail on drug and murder charges.
On Tuesday, Botha said that he and Els had laid charges at the Stellenbosch police station on Monday.
He said they had known about the witness and what he had said before Van der Vyver’s murder trial began.
Botha claimed policemen who also knew about this at the time had done nothing to investigate further.
Lotz was murdered in her Stellenbosch flat on March 16, 2005.
Last month Van der Vyver was found not guilty of her murder in the Cape High Court by Judge Deon van Zyl and two assessors.
Els told the Cape Argus on Tuesday the witness said three killers had entered Lotz’s apartment on the day of her death. One was an acquaintance of hers.
”According to the witness, there were six people in total, but three entered the flat,” he said.
”We have reason to believe their motive was to get money for drugs. All six are known to us and most of them are in jail at the moment waiting to appear on similar charges of murder, robbery and drug-dealing.” — Sapa