SoPlett! | Plettenberg Bay News and Info

TWO senior policemen from Plettenberg Bay can finally move forward with their lives and careers after having been hamstrung for five years by a pending fraud case against them.

SIX months after a Plettenberg Bay guesthouse owner was allegedly raped by two policemen in the Knysna town centre, the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) is still awaiting the results of crucial DNA testing before further action can be taken.

THE trial of logging contractor Cassie Nel, accused of culpable homicide for the death of a hiker killed in a tree-felling accident on the Tsitsikamma hiking trial, has been postponed to next year to allow him to apply for a stay of prosecution.

FOUR of the five members of the alleged criminal gang arrested for Plett’s Lookout Deck murder in April will remain behind bars until they go on trial in the High Court.

THE notion that “foreigners must go back to their home country after the World Cup” started spreading like wildfire in dry grass through certain Plett townships, as soon as the final football match was concluded on July 11.

SERIOUS crimes under investigation in Bitou include the suspected murder of a Crags mother, and the stabbing of a 17-year-old schoolboy by another learner at Murray High School in Kwanokuthula.

LOGGING contractor Cassie Nel denied yesterday that he was ordered to move his tree-felling operations from the Tsitsikamma hiking trail shortly before a runaway log killed a 40-year-old hiker on the path.

[ July 22, 2010; 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Plett’s Community Police Forum is being established. We (SoPlett) recently received correspondence between the CPF and the Plettenberg Bay Ratepayers Association’s urging support from the Association for the new endeavor.