Testifying as a state witness in Van Breda’s triple murder trial in the Cape Town High Court‚ Koegelenberg described the “waterfall” of blood that flowed down the stairs as he moved Van Breda’s younger sister, Marli, who survived the January 2015 attack.
Koegelenberg described how he was led by police into the Van Breda family home at the De Zalze estate in Stellenbosch‚ only to find everything deurmekaar (muddled up).
Henri was sitting with a small dog (known to the media as Sasha)‚ and Koegelenberg was told there were four victims in the house.
Climbing the stairs‚ he came across two of them. “I saw one was still alive. I went to the first two victims while my colleague went to the other two‚” he said.
Police took pictures‚ and then the blood from Marli’s wounds “flowed like a waterfall to the bottom of the stairs” as he and a colleague moved the then 16-year-old.
