Alleged brothel owner accused of burgling cop’s office
An alleged brothel owner from Cape Town, who is facing attempted murder and other charges, allegedly broke into the office of a detective assigned to her case.
|||Cape Town - A woman accused of breaking into a police detective’s office to take back her husband’s confiscated travel documents was released on R5 000 bail when she appeared in a court in Cape Town on Friday.
Jacqueline Seymour, 27, of Oakglen, a Bellville neighbourhood, appeared in the Bellville District Court before Magistrate Ronald Rieckert.
Her bail application was launched by defence attorney Neil Slabber.
It was a alleged in the proceedings that she operated a brothel and that she faces a charge of attempted murder in another matter for seriously assaulting a visitor to the brothel who refused to pay.
The court heard that during her arrest for the attempted murder, police confiscated her husband’s car as well as travel documents belonging to him that were in the vehicle.
Whilst in custody in the attempted murder case, she made a statement to the police implicating herself in the discovery of a charred body on the N7 highway, the court heard.
In Friday’s proceedings, she was charged with housebreaking and theft for allegedly breaking into the detective’s office to retrieve the confiscated travel documents.
The charge sheet alleges that she stole an envelope containing documents, keys, her husband’s passport, and car documents.
Seymour also faces a second charge of defeating the ends of justice.
The case is to be transferred to the Bellville Regional Court, and she was warned to appear in court again on August 28, when she will be informed of the date on which she has to appear in the regional court.
African News Agency