'I killed because of God': Naidoo

06 March 2012 - 02:42 By NIVASHNI NAIR
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God sent Nicolette Lotter a vision that made her realise that Mathew Naidoo's mother was "most certainly" involved in her parents' murder, the Durban High Court heard yesterday.

Nicolette Lotter testifying at her murder trial in the Durban High Court yesterday Picture: THULI DLAMINI
Nicolette Lotter testifying at her murder trial in the Durban High Court yesterday Picture: THULI DLAMINI
Nicolette Lotter testifying at her murder trial in the Durban High Court yesterday Picture: THULI DLAMINI
Nicolette Lotter testifying at her murder trial in the Durban High Court yesterday Picture: THULI DLAMINI

In a bizarre twist, Lotter accused Rita, the mother of her former boyfriend, Naidoo, of being her son's accomplice.

She said Rita Naidoo was a divorceewho earned R500 a week.

"She probably told him to do it because her son had a girlfriend whose parents had everything. My parents didn't deserve to die but they were killed because of accused number two's [Naidoo's] greed," she said.

She testified that she was praying and begging God for answers when a vision of telephone records came to her. She said the records showed that Naidoo phoned his mother several times after her parents, Johan and Riekie Lotter, were killed.

She said Naidoo had hated his mother, so she could not understand why she was the first person he called after the double murder.

She claimed that Naidoo's mother practised witchcraft because she had a framed picture of him with a cream dot on it. She later found out in prison that the cream dot was "liquid ashes used by Indians".

Lotter read a statement Rita Naidoo made to the police after the murder.

"She said that, when she spoke to me, I was calm and Mathew sounded frightened. It seems to me that she was putting him in a good light and me in a bad light.

"She also said that [I had said I had] wanted to kill [my] parents. If she knew this, then she had 17 months to tell police that there was a young adult who wanted to kill her parents. She could have stopped the whole murder from happening, but she didn't. How could she allow her only son to date someone who wants to kill her parents? Then I realised she was certainly involved and she was either his accomplice or ."

Lotter and her brother, Hardus, claim that Naidoomanipulated them into believing that he was the "third son of God" and that God wanted their parents dead.

The state alleges that Naidoo and the siblings planned and committed the double murder to gain a share of the parents' estate.

Yesterday, Nicolette Lotter said Naidoo had come up with the plan to shock her parents with stun guns and then inject air bubbles into their veins induce a heart attack.

"I was kind of relieved that they wouldn't feel pain. I believed they were Satan. It's not like we wanted them to die, but it's what God wanted. If I knew this man was lying about God, I wouldn't have had him in my life," she said.

She said she did not stab her mother to death because she hated her but " because of God".

When Judge Shyam Gyanda asked if she knew right from wrong, without the "thrills and whistles that go with this voice of God", she said: "I know it was wrong to kill my mother but I believed it was the will of God. I believed it was right because I spoke to God face to face and God is the author of the law."

Lotter said God, angels and demons talked through Naidoo.

When Gyanda asked if this was not far-fetched, Nicolette said she was proof that people fall for "such things".

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