About Trevor Anthony Weightman
Trevor Anthony Weightman (1951 - 2005)
Brief overview:
Trevor (54), was hacked to death with a bush knife on his farm in Winterton, KZN on 11th August 2005.
Career criminal Mfanyana Khanyile (65), who had 'escaped' from prison on eight previous occasions, was arrested at a farm in Weenen on 12th September 2005. Khanyile admitted guilt to the murder, and was sentenced in the Pietermaritzburg High Court to life imprisonment. "I armed myself with a bush knife and proceeded to the room where he was sleeping. I struck him several times with a bush knife on the head, neck and hands." Khanyile told the court.
At the times of his arrests throughout KwaZulu-Natal, he had gone under different names including Fana Khanyile, John Khanyile, Fanyana Khanyile, John Mkhize, Mfanyana Khanyile, Jerome Mkhize, John Zondi and John Mtetwa.
He stole Weightman's cellphone, table knife, eight packets of peanuts, a DStv decoder and tools.
Brief Biography:
- Other Victims/Family
- Funeral/Memorial
- The Farm/Smallholding
- The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)
- 20/06/2011: "The local farming community has nothing but high praise for the sterling work being done by a group of dedicated policemen attached to Pietermaritzburg’s Organised Crime Unit under the command of Colonel Piet Scott, who lay claim to a near 100 percent success rate in solving farm murders in the KZN Midlands since 2003.
- Of the nineteen Midlands farm murder cases handled by the team dating back to the murder of Shaun Clark in Camperdown (2003), only one, arising from the murder of Philip Rudolph Buys in Weenen in September 2003, is classed as “unsolved”. The unit arrested a total of 50 culprits in connection with the eighteen “solved” cases with 24 of the killers sentenced to life imprisonment and others receiving sentences ranging from an effective 30 years imprisonment to 18 years imprisonment.
- The midlands farm murder cases that have been solved by the team include the murders of: Shaun Clark of Camperdown (2003); Johannes Willem Bruwer (Camperdown, 2003); Parvathie Surapen (Thornville, 2003); Charles Hyett Shepherd (Bergville, 2003); Nora Joyce Gevers (Wartburg, 2004); David Boyd Varty (Rietvlei, 2005); Trevor Anthony Weightman Trevor Weightman (Winterton, 2005); Jacqueline Ivy Chatterton (Boston, 2005); Ezra Arieh Podolski (Eric) (Cramond, 2006); Andrew Roy Main (Cramond, 2007); David Merwyn Green (Estcourt, 2007); Alan Rowe (Rietvlei, 2009); Erasmus Mncube Erasmus Mncube (and attack on his employers, Collin and Nola Barrett at Nottingham Road in 2009); Dr. Warwick Anthony Dorning (Mpophomeni, 2009); Lynette Ralfe (Colenso, 2010); Lorraine Karg , Hilda Linyane, Zakeue Shayi Mhlongo (Mooi River, 2010) and Radash Anandlal (Cramond, 2010)
- Police spokesperson Warrant Officer Joey Jeevan, said the management of the SAPF commends Colonel Scott and the unit for their “sterling investigation and their dedication to duty”."
- 71 farm murders in Colenso, Winterton rural areas between 2001 and 2011, Since 2001 there have been 17 Farmers and around 54 staff / community members murdered on 83 farms in Winterton, Colenso and surrounding areas.
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
- Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
- Trial/Conviction
Additional Biographical Information:
- Identity Number : 5102135134087
- Official cause of death : Unnatural causes
- https://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=3313917
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Trevor Anthony Weightman's Timeline
| 1951 |
February 13, 1951
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| 2005 |
August 11, 2005
Age 54
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Winterton, Uthukela DC, KZN, South Africa
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St Barnabas Anglican Church, Memorial wall, Bluff , Durban, KZN, South Africa
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