Kroonstad - The suspected "cyber terrorist" who was arrested at his parents' Kroonstad home at the weekend was also under scrutiny on Monday in connection with a murder that took place at the town more than 14 years ago.
Juan-Duval Lt. Uys, as he's registered at home affairs, was known in Kroonstad at the time as Ludie Uys.
He worked as an administrative clerk at the mess hall of the Department of Correctional Services (known then as the prison service).
He changed his name because he apparently didn't like his given name "Lodewikus".
In relationship with victim
It's not clear what the "Lt." in his current name refers to.
He had already changed his name to Juan-Duval Uys the first time he laid a charge at a police station in 1994.
Since then he has laid 20 different charges with the police.
In the past few years he has also used the names Neil Watson, David Baxter, Shaun Thompson and Skye.
Uys, Ludie at the time, was a close friend in the late eighties and early nineties of sergeant Hennie Schmidt, who was brutally murdered in the prison service kitchen at Kroonstad in 1993.
Rumour has it that they were involved in a relationship. Schmidt was murdered after Uys left Kroonstad.
Uys's fingerprints were apparently taken after his appearance in the Kroonstad Magistrate's Court on Monday.
They will apparently be compared with a fingerprint in blood found at the 1993 murder scene.
Schmidt was stabbed fourteen times with a knife and repeatedly struck on the head. His murderer was never found, even though the case was re-opened and investigated several times.
For the past few weeks, Uys had been staying with his aged parents in Suidrand, Kroonstad, who were unwell.
The couple moved to Kroonstad after Uys had already resigned from the prison service and left the town.
He was arrested in Kroonstad on Saturday morning on an outstanding warrant for the theft of R250.
The complaint was filed with the Table Bay harbour police in 2004.
He appeared in court briefly on Monday and will be collected by the investigating officer from Cape Town, to appear in court again on July 30 in the Mother City.
Uys, aka Watson, Thompson and Skye is apparently the man behind the sex blog in which several prominent South African are named as supposed clients of a male prostitute.
He was allegedly the driving force behind the notorious website crimexposouthafrica.
Charges relating to the site were laid against Neil Watson and Shaun Thompson, but not against Juan-Duval Uys. This is why the police records show only two charges against Uys.
He was apparently also the former leader of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance.
In this capacity, he claimed that his life was also in danger after nine gay men died in the grizzly Sizzler murders, in 1993.
1 comment:
Whoever has started this blog must either be monumentally stupid or totally naive. Everybody and the media has gone beserk and overboard about this Uys character.
Before I burst a vein in my head out of sheer frustration with this entire case let me vent my opinions here:
NO judge or court on this planet will find a person or parties guilty or responsible for slander or crimen injura for something published on the internet. The internet is unique in the sense that it is a PUBLIC medium, and not like traditional paid-for media. It is almost as if the parties involved in this case has never surfed the internet before! Have they never seen the crap out there?
The law explicitly excludes this medium from these legal structures. The only exception is child pornography.
We may all hold an opinion about the infamous sex blog or southafricaexposed blog - but Uys has full right to publish on a blog WHATEVER he wishes to! That is the point of especially blogs.
The real guilty parties here are:
The sensationalist media who gave this blog perceived credibility in the first place. Without them, this would've been just another crazy satire blog out there.
Another party is "AIN" who everybody confuses with National Intelligence. It turns out AIN is nothing but a private investigation firm, run by ex-cops, oblivious to any legal knowledge or the rights of privacy of individuals. They happily take money from private clients to embark on massive cloak-and-dagger operations for a case they should know cannot be prosecuted.
Indeed - "a storm in a teacup". There is a bigger issue involved here - I do not support this individual or his actions, but instead of Uys looking like a villian, to me, the only thing that this whole debacle has exposed is the sheer ignorance and stupidity of all parties involved.
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