Afrigather The courtroom has ordered that the 17-year-old teenager accused of the homicide of 16-year-old Deveney Nel endure analysis on the Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital in Observatory, Cape City.
Psychiatric analysis
The Caledon Justice of the Peace’s Court docket ordered that the murder-accused teenager within the Deveney Nel case be admitted for psychiatric analysis. This determination got here after his authorized representatives submitted an utility to the courtroom requesting it.
Consequently, the courtroom has postponed the case till subsequent month, in keeping with capetownetc.
Markedly, the accused additionally underwent psychiatric evaluation on the Valkenberg Hospital in 2020 following an accusation of rape.
The psychiatrist and medical psychologist who evaluated {the teenager} on the time, concluded that the accused had ‘cognitive weak spot and ethical and social immaturity’.
Due to this fact, they discovered that the affected person didn’t have felony capability on the time of the alleged rape of the 11-year-old sufferer in 2020.
Teenager beforehand accused of rape
After the arrest for Deveney’s homicide, the mom of one other woman got here ahead revealing that the identical teenage boy was accused of raping her then 11-year-old daughter in 2020.
Though the rape was reported on the time, the mom of the sufferer said that the justice system failed each her and her daughter through the 2020 proceedings. She added that due to this, the justice system is in the end partly chargeable for Deveney Nel’s homicide.
The authorities withdrew the rape case in opposition to {the teenager} only a 12 months earlier than Deveney Nel, an Overberg Excessive College learner, was fatally stabbed.
Search get together finds Deveney’s physique in storeroom
Deveney’s mom reported her lacking on 7 August 2024. This was after Deveney didn’t present up for her trip dwelling after college. Caledon police consequently fashioned a search get together. Following a search that lasted a number of hours, the search get together discovered her physique in a storeroom on the college. Medical personnel declared her deceased on the scene, in keeping with Captain FC van Wyk.
Detectives from the Provincial Critical and Violent Crimes arrested the suspect on 16 August 2024. His first courtroom look within the Caledon Magistrates Court docket was on 19 August 2024.
As a result of the homicide suspect is a minor, authorities can not make his title public.
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