A man accused of stabbing his daughters and step-daughters and raping them is believed to have taken his own life, with his body found inside a B&B in Bellville on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Charles Smith, 50, was wanted by police and authorities after he allegedly stabbed his two daughters at their residence following his release on bail.<\/p>\n
Smith was facing a charge of rape and was granted bail in December with strict conditions not to make contact with the victims or to visit their home in Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain.<\/p>\n
It’s further alleged that Smith revisited the victim’s home and stabbed the two daughters, one aged ten, and then fled the scene and went on the run.<\/p>\n
The children’s mother apparently raised the alarm and contacted the neighbours for help.<\/p>\n
On 30 December Smith’s body was found inside a room at a B&B in Bellville.<\/p>\n
Police spokesperson, Sergeant Wesley Twigg confirmed that Smith’s body was discovered: “Bellville police registered an inquest for investigation after the body of a 50-year-old male was discovered at a bed and breakfast in Blankenberg Street, Bellville on Tuesday, 30 December, at about 3.40pm. The circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation.<\/p>\n
Linda Jones of the Mitchell’s Plain Community Policing Forum (CPF) said they were appealing for the justice system to become stricter with conditions for bail.<\/p>\n
“We need to say we will not tolerate this.”<\/p>\n
“This man was in custody for the rape of his daughter and stepdaughter.<\/p>\n
“He was granted R3000 bail but could not afford it. “He was back in court on December 15.<\/p>\n
“His legal aid asked for reduction.<\/p>\n
“The magistrate released him on conditions that he does not go to the area where the victim is or make contact and was granted free bail.<\/p>\n
“It was alleged that he broke into the family home and carried out the crime.<\/p>\n
“He stabbed the young one ten times and the one that ran out he also stabbed. He then went on the run. The mother went to find help by a neighbour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of stabbing his daughters and step-daughters and raping them is believed to have taken his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[3125,3130,3122,3124,3131,3123,3134,3127,3128,3132,3126,3133,131,3129],"class_list":{"0":"post-3761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-bellville","9":"tag-blankenberg-street","10":"tag-ca-man","11":"tag-charles-smith","12":"tag-cpf","13":"tag-daughters","14":"tag-jones","15":"tag-linda-jones","16":"tag-mitchells-plain","17":"tag-mitchells-plain-community-policing-forum","18":"tag-new-years-eve","19":"tag-r3000","20":"tag-south-africa","21":"tag-tafelsig"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}