'THIS IS NOT THE END

Families kwaad after court provisionally withdraws case against 'fraud' undertaker

- BY GENEVIEVE SERRA

“IT DOES not mean the end”. These were the words of the magistrate at the Kuils River Magistrates Court as she struck the matter off the roll against Kraaifontein undertaker, Petrus Booysen.Booysen made headlines in January when he was accused of burying people as paupers instead of cremating them, and issuing fake cremation certificates to families.

More than 10 families broke their silence this year, saying their loved ones were not cremated but buried in unmarked graves in Kuils River’s Welmoed Cemetery.

But the families' nightmare continued on Wednesday when the magistrate provisionally struck the matter off the roll for vital evidence such as the Western Cape High Court application for exhumations and DNA testing to be submitted.

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