Lee Adams

Lee Adams (1998 - 2013)

Brief overview:

Lee (15), was stabbed to death and decapitated for money/muti in an abandoned school (Florida Primary) in Ravensmead, near Parow

On the 17th of October 2013, Lee Adams set off to the local store to buy a loaf of bread.

When he didn’t return home and then, a horrific discovery was made in a local abandoned school, Lee Adams was stabbed numerous times, strangled and finally decapitated at an abandoned primary school. The killer, Aljar Swartz planned to sell the head to a sangoma (traditional healer) for R5,000.

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
• Funeral/Memorial
  • Ravensmead Civic Centre on 26/10/2013
• The Street/Suburb
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)

Attack Details:

• Date and time of attack
• Weapons
• Items Stolen
• Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
• Torture, Gratuitous violence
• Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.

Perpetrator details:

• Number and Descriptions
• Arrests
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
  • Aljar Swartz (17)
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction
  • Swartz admitted to killing Adams at an abandoned school in Ravensmead in October 2013.
  • Swartz stabbed and beheaded Lee Adams for muti, was sentenced to 22 years in jail in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday.
  • Aljar Swartz would, however, serve a maximum of just over 19 of these years because his sentence was backdated to his arrest in October 2013.
  • Western Cape High Court Judge Elize Steyn described Swartz as a “heartless individual” who had shown no remorse or compassion but instead “knew what he was doing and enjoyed it”.

Additional Biographical Information:

Links to Media articles:

• https://archive.ph/a9DNP
• https://archive.ph/whPCX
• https://archive.ph/vM5OM
• https://archive.ph/2jBT6
• https://archive.ph/dAShU
• https://archive.ph/WJ2P5
• https://truecrimesouthafrica.com/the-murder-of-lee-adams-episode-95/ (True Crime South Africa podcast)