Phoenix Racing Cloud Theron and Kyle Maspero, accused of murdering Theron's mother, will spend Christmas in jail.
|||Cape Town - The pretty fair-haired girl rested her head on the boy’s shoulder. They smiled at each other and giggled softly together.
They could have been any young couple in love - but they were Phoenix Racing Cloud Theron and boyfriend Kyle Maspero, and they were in the dock facing a charge of murdering Theron’s mother, Rosemary.
The stolen moment was interrupted when Simon’s Town magistrate Crystal McKenna told them and their co-accused, Godfrey Scheepers to rise.
She postponed the case until January 23, which means Theron and Maspero will spend Christmas and New Year in custody while police continue investigating the murder of Rosemary Theron, a Clovelly performance artist.
Theron and Maspero had previously abandoned their bail applications while Scheepers’s bail has been extended.
Rosemary Theron was reported missing from her Fish Hoek home in March. Months later, Scheepers told police that he had helped move her body from a Fish Hoek field near the Theron home to a dune in Baden Powell Drive.
Theron, 19, Maspero, 18, and Scheepers, 20, were all arrested.
The court heard on Tuesday that police were still waiting for post-mortem documents and information about statements that had been made.
William de Grass appeared for Maspero, Raees Kaskar for Theron and Joe Webber for Scheepers.
Before McKenna adjourned the court, she said the media were permitted to take photographs when proceedings had ended.
Relatives and friends leaned forward to clasp Theron and Maspero’s hands as the court adjourned.
Maspero’s foster father, Martin Hatchuel, said later that he was feeling more positive after Tuesday’s proceedings.
He added that the magistrate needed to be commended for addressing the media.
“I think what needs to come out is the back story… we need to find the truth and I don’t know if it’s all going to come out,” he said.
The State alleges that Theron and her mother had an argument. Later, she went out and while she was gone, Theron and Maspero smoked drugs and discussed how they would kill Rosemary.
It is alleged that when she returned Theron hugged her mother and apologised, while Maspero strangled Rosemary with a rope.
A number of memorial gatherings were held for Rosemary Theron after news broke of the discovery of her body.
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Cape Argus