Sasha McKay

Sasha McKay (1974 - 2000)

Brief overview:

Sasha (25), a journalist living in Fourways, Sandton, was found dead in the driveway of her home by her fiancé, Ruben Wessels, on 14th January 2000. She was shot execution-style with a 22-calibre weapon. The killer took only her cellphone and filofax, leaving jewellery and her car.

Sasha had confided in a close friend, saying that she was intending on leaving her job and her fiance. Wessels was cleared as a suspect when he produced proof of tollgate tickets on roads that he had been travelling on at the time. As he was the life-insurance beneficiary, he received a R250,000.00 pay-out of Sasha's murder.

In 2007, the police docket was still awaiting a referral to the Randburg inquest court. The McKay family expressed their frustration and anger, stating that 'it is more an indictment of a shockingly inadequate inquiry than a record of investigation.'

The investigation had stalled, yet a number of facts were revealed by Sasha's mother Verlaine. It was uncovered that tape recordings of calls from Sasha's phone in the hours after she died, which contained the voices of three Afrikaans men, are missing from the docket. The blood found on Sasha's car keys was never tested for DNA. No forensic examination of the car was conducted, and the crime scene was contaminated. "Verlaine McKay claims investigator Inspector Francois Heyns told her that the police "did not have the budget" to run blood tests. When she offered to raise the money herself, she was rebuffed."

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
• Funeral/Memorial
• 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
  • No arrests were ever made, and no further updates can be found.
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction

Additional Biographical Information

At time of her death was the youngest female Editor in South Africa

Links to Media articles:

• https://archive.is/C75xT
• https://web.archive.org/web/20010502203241/http://www.homestead.com...

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