The high court in the Western Cape, South Africa on Friday, October 28, convicted an abusive boyfriend, Phillip April, of the premeditated murder of his ex-girlfriend, Allison Plaatjies, Charmingpro reports.
26-year-old Allison Plaatjies sustained multiple stab wounds following Philip’s attack in October 2019.
April was also convicted for stealing her vehicle. He had previously denied this charge, claiming that she had permitted him to drive her car.
Western Cape National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila said “This conviction follows the State declining to accept the accused’s guilty plea when he confessed to Plaatjies’s murder.
In the guilty plea, the accused claimed that on October 26, 2019, Plaatjies arrived at his friend’s place, where they were watching rugby and drinking.
He claims that Plaatjies persuaded him to go with her to her flat, as she had brought him something to eat.
April also claimed that Plaatjies was not happy with him drinking alcohol, and she told him that she was going out with her friends.
An argument broke out between the two when April asked Plaatjies why she had taken him away from his friends when she knew that she would be going out with her friends.
When the argument escalated, April grabbed Plaatjies by her throat and choked her before he went to the kitchen to pick up a knife, with which he stabbed her. When the knife broke he got another one and slit her throat.
April then took off his tracksuit pants, which were stained with blood, and threw them in the shower. He left the flat to go sleep at his mother’s place.
The accused spent the following two days after the murder on a drinking spree with a friend, while driving the Plaatjies’s vehicle. The two drove to Graafwater and Citrusdal where he was arrested on October 28, 2019, on their way to Clanwilliam.