Mother accused of killing son, claims State is ‘implicating’ her

BAIL APPLICATION

- NADIA KHAN [e-mail]

A GAUTENG mother, who is accused of killing her 11-year-old son, claimed the State was “trying to implicate her and the people closest to her”, and likened her case to that of missing child Joshlin Smith.

This was heard during the bail application of Tiffany Nicole Meek in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg.

Meek, 31, of Fleurhof, was arrested and charged with the murder of her son, Jayden-Lee Meek, who was reported missing on May 13. The next morning, the Grade 5 pupil was found lying metres away from the door of the home he lived in with Meek.

She was arrested on July 11 at her mother’s home in Roodepoort where she had been living over the past two months, and made her first appearance in court last Monday.

Meek has also been charged with defeating or obstructing the administration of justice, crimen injuria, and attempting to defeat or obstruct the course of justice.

According to the charge sheet, the State alleged that Meek had unlawfully and intentionally killed Jayden-Lee by hitting or striking him with an unknown object, and as a result, he died of a blunt force head injury.

The State said Jayden-Lee used what was colloquially known as school transport to travel between home and school, as arranged and paid for by Meek.

It is alleged that on May 13, JaydenLee travelled to and from school using such transport.

“He was collected at the complex gate in the morning and delivered at the gate in the afternoon.”

The State further alleged that later that day, Meek went to the Florida branch of the SAPS to report him as missing and that a docket was registered.

A day later, Jayden-Lee was discovered by a security guard in a passage a few metres outside the residential unit.

“The deceased was declared dead on arrival at the Discoverers Community Health Centre.”

Blood on the bed