Cape Town ‘a dumping ground for bodies’

THE Cape Flats has become a dumping ground for murder victims. Experts in forensic pathology have weighed in on why killers mutilate and dumped bodies in order to disfigure them when identification takes place.

- MARSHA DEAN [e-mail]

THE MK Party has laid criminal charges at the Cape Town Central police station against private investigator Paul O'Sullivan, accusing him of threatening and intimidating witnesses linked to Parliament's Ad Hoc Committee.

(ARMAND HOUGH Independent Newspapers)

Criminals seem to follow the same modus operandi, with bodies found mutilated, burned beyond recognition or in a wheelie bin.

The areas commonly recorded with the highest body counts are the dunes along Baden Powell Drive and in Mitchells Plain or in the reeds of Macassar.

Recent incidents include:

• On November 17 in Waboom Street, Tafelsig, a man was found with parts of his face cut out and his pants pulled down.