At Deysel

At Deysel (1948 – 2008)

Brief overview:

At (60), and his wife Katrien Deysel (56), were brutally tortured and murdered, on 12th April 2008, on their farm between Lichtenburg and Ottoshoop. Their bodies were discovered by a neighbour. At's body was found some distance from the house, his throat was slit. Katrien was found inside the house, she had shot. The perpetrators also killed one of the couple's dogs and a parrot. They fled in the couple's pick-up truck which they crashed, and a neighbour saw the vehicle and reported it.

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
  • The couple is survived by five children and eight grandchildren.
• Funeral/Memorial
• The Farm/Smallholding
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)
  • Three farm murders took place last week, said AgriSA on Wednesday. "There have been more than 10,700 farm attacks since 1991 in which more than 1,600 members of the farming community, including farmworkers, were murdered," said AgriSA law and order committee chairperson André Botha.
  • See: Zaiboon Jeena (61) 12/03/2008 Ottoshoop, NW (raped, burnt with a clothes iron, stabbed and her fingers broken)

Attack Details:

• Date and time of attack:
  • PM 12th April 2008
• Weapons:
  • Firearm, knife
• Items Stolen:
  • Four firearms, a mobile phone
• Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
  • Police spokesperson Inspector Carina Fourie.
• Torture, Gratuitous violence:
• Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.

Perpetrator details:

• Number and Descriptions:
  • Two
• Arrests:
  • Phillip Moremi out on bail for a series of serious offences
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s:
  • Phillip Moremi (29), and Andrew Modikela (41), both from Zeerust (escaped from the Ottoshoop police cells)
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction
  • More than 500 farmers from North West towns descended on the Lichtenburg magistrate's court where one of two alleged killers appeared on 29th April 2008.

Additional Biographical Information:

Links to Media articles:

• https://archive.is/AtBaQ
• https://archive.fo/GOmIf
• http://archive.fo/ZMa9T
• http://archive.fo/FESSm
• http://archive.fo/cTzqV
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080513233545/http://www.news24.com/Be...
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080501180502/http://www.news24.com/Be...
• https://mg.co.za/article/2008-04-24-police-praised-for-shooting-arm...
• https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Couple-murdered-on-farm-200...
• https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/No-one-denounces-farm-attac...
• https://www.news24.com/World/News/Attacker-kills-parrot-too-20080423
• http://archive.fo/r58Xs
• https://archive.ph/dtLaa