Johannesburg - Child porn accused Dawie de Villiers will deny the email correspondence between him and his ex-wife over pornographic pictures she said she discovered in his computer in 2009, his lawyer Jacques Pienaar told the High Court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
“My client will deny he is the author of these emails presented in court. They were not written by him,” Pienaar said to De Villiers’ ex-wife during cross examination.
Earlier, the mother of two told the court she discovered explicit photographs of one of his alleged victims, a woman, in 2009 – the same year their marriage ended.
She said some of the photos showed the woman half naked. Some of them were very explicit, while others showed her completely naked.
She emailed them to the woman for an explanation, and to De Villiers. The woman told her that De Villiers sexually assaulted her, and that he forced her to pose for photographs while naked.
De Villiers had allegedly threatened the woman, and told her he would post the photographs over the internet if she told anyone else about them.
The ex-wife read out one of De Villiers’ emailed responses about the photographs, in which he cursed the woman and threatened to kill her.
Judge Cassim Moosa asked Pienaar who wrote the emails if it was not De Villiers himself.
“We do not know, my Lord,” said Pienaar.
Cassim turned to the ex-wife and asked her if what was said by the defence was true.
“I cannot believe this my Lord… it is incorrect.”
When asked by Pienaar why she used email to communicate with De Villiers, instead of talking to him directly, the ex-wife said email was their preferable way of communication at the time.
The trial continues on Friday.
African News Agency