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Murderess Najwa Petersen has been refused leave to appeal her conviction.
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/ 11 February 2009
Najwa Petersen on Wednesday escaped a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of her husband Taliep, but was effectively jailed for 28 years.
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/ 5 February 2009
Convicted murderess Najwa Petersen and her three co-accused will be sentenced next Wednesday, Cape High Court Judge Siraj Desai said on Thursday.
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/ 7 December 2008
Captain Joe Dryden, investigating officer of the case, said they were suspicious of Najwa ”from very early on”.
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/ 22 October 2008
Judgement in the Taliep Petersen murder trial will be handed down on December 1, Cape High Court Judge Siraj Desai said on Wednesday.
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/ 20 October 2008
State witness Fahiem Hendricks, not Najwa Petersen, was the mastermind behind the murder of Taliep Petersen, the Cape High Court heard on Monday.
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/ 20 October 2008
Najwa Petersen’s version of events on the night of the murder of her husband, Taliep, was riddled with improbabilities, the Cape High Court hears.
The final witness in the Taliep Petersen murder trial testified on Thursday, as proceedings were postponed to October 20 for closing arguments.
One of the men charged with musician Taliep Petersen’s murder on Wednesday said he knew he would be caught by the police.
Music legend Taliep Petersen pleaded not to be killed as he lay bound on the floor, one of the men charged with his murder told a court on Tuesday.
One of the people accused of murdering Taliep Petersen shed tears on Monday when questioned about a show of affection for a baby in the Petersen home.
The man who says he has confessed all in the Taliep Petersen killing faced a grilling on Thursday over contradictions in his statements.
One of Najwa Petersen’s co-accused on Wednesday showed the Cape High Court how she allegedly fired the shot that killed her bound husband, Taliep.
At least two witnesses called by the state to testify against murder-accused Najwa Petersen have been threatened with death.
A Taliep Petersen murder accused testifies that a cluster of phone calls in the countdown to the musician’s killing was just coincidence.
Najwa Petersen’s son testifies he was ”scared, very scared and shaken” when an intruder entered the room where he slept with his family.
The Cape High Court on Tuesday viewed video footage which showed murdered entertainer Taliep Petersen lying face down in a large pool of blood.
Najwa Petersen herself fired the shot that killed her famous musician husband Taliep Petersen, the Cape High Court heard on Wednesday.
The Cape High Court on Monday heard a graphic account of how Najwa Petersen stabbed her husband, Taliep, in the neck one night, eight months before he was murdered. It also heard that the theatre personality’s life was insured for R5,3-million, and that Najwa tried after his death to have the money paid into a Namibian bank account.
Taliep Petersen’s sister gave up on the 10111 emergency number on the night her brother was killed, driving to a police station instead to get help, the Cape High Court heard on Thursday. Ma’atoema Groenmeyer told the court she believed her abortive 10111 call was the first attempt that anyone made to summon police.
In the agony of remorse, one of the men arrested for Taliep Petersen’s murder painstakingly wrote out a 15-page confession detailing his role in the murder. But it was Taliep’s wife, Najwa, who actually pulled the trigger after giving her husband a last embrace, Waheed Hassen said.
The Cape High Court on Monday watched a police video in which murder accused Waheed Hassen not only admitted to a role in the killing of Taliep Petersen, but expressed remorse. The video came at the start of the second day of a trial within a trial, in which Hassen is contesting the admissibility of statements he made to the police.
Murder accused Najwa Petersen not only hired hit men to kill her husband, Taliep, she even arranged to let them into the family home to do the deed, the Cape High Court heard on Monday. Fahiem Hendricks, who is in witness protection, was testifying in the trial of Najwa and three men charged with Taliep’s execution-style shooting.
Taliep Petersen’s death looked ”suspect” from the start, his younger brother, Igsaan, told the Cape High Court on Friday. Igsaan was the third witness to be called in the trial of Taliep’s wife, Najwa, and three alleged hit men, who are accused of murdering him on the night of December 16 2006.
Theatre personality Taliep Petersen and his wife, Najwa, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering him, were a loving couple, the Cape High Court was told on Wednesday. However, at the time of his death they were sleeping in separate bedrooms, and he was talking about ”getting another place”.
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/ 7 November 2007
Suleiman Petersen, teenage stepson of slain musician Taliep Petersen, had to take over responsibility for the Petersen household after police arrested his mother, Najwa, for Taliep’s murder. This was disclosed in a letter handed to the Wynberg Regional Court on Wednesday during Najwa Petersen’s second bail application.
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/ 25 October 2007
Entertainer Taliep Petersen and his wife, Najwa, were involved in dodgy diamond and currency deals, the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard on Thursday. One of these deals was in progress on the night he died, according to an affidavit handed in as evidence in Najwa’s second bail application.
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/ 20 September 2007
Najwa Petersen, widow of slain musician Taliep Petersen, is to launch a fresh bail application next month based on ”new facts”, the Wynberg Regional Court heard on Thursday. She and three men whom she allegedly hired to murder her husband are to go on trial in the Cape High Court on a date still to be fixed.
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/ 20 September 2007
A man facing three charges of possession of stolen property believes the media have turned his case into a high profile one due to his family connection to Najwa Petersen, the woman accused of murdering her husband, Taliep Petersen. Achmat Rylands was on Wednesday released on R10 000 bail.