By Phumlani Saul
Kenneth and Mariam Barnes could not understand why their grandson had spent days staring at a particular spot in their backyard.
On Monday, the reason became clear.
“He [allegedly] told me that he had buried his girlfriend in our backyard,” grandfather Barnes said.
The gruesome murder of 15-year-old Sinthia Williams — several months pregnant at the time of her death, according to her family — has stunned Kariega residents.
That her 19-year-old boyfriend has allegedly confessed to not only killing her, but disposing of her body in a shallow grave only metres from his grandparents’ back door, is beyond anyone’s imagination.
The man will appear in the Kariega magistrate’s court on Friday.
The suspect handed himself over to police last night [Wednesday] and pointed out that he buried her in the garden at his home in Bauhinia Crescent,” police spokesperson Captain Andre Beetge said.
“Police then found her body in a shallow grave at that premises and the suspect was subsequently arrested for her murder.”
For 10 days, Sinthia’s remains lay concealed beneath the dirt at the house in Bauhinia Crescent in the suburb of Thomas Gamble until the man, who cannot be named until he has appeared in court, allegedly confessed to his grandparents.
His grandparents’ horror is compounded by the fact that he even took part in searches for the teen mother-to-be after she was reported missing, and that he had allegedly told Sinthia’s parents he was worried that he could not find her.
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