She underwent emergency brain surgery and was kept in a medically induced coma for several days. A month after the murders she started to be able to identify people in family photos‚ but she suffers from retrograde amnesia about what happened on the night of Henri’s rampage at the family home at De Zalze‚ in Stellenbosch.
Neither the defence nor the prosecution called her as a witness in her brother's trial.
Buikman said her term as Marli’s curator would last at least until the middle of June.
“The issue of whether the term of my curatorship ought to be extended will be addressed in the High Court on 11 June 2018 after I file a further report. Until then I will continue to serve as Marli’s curator‚” she said.
Van Breda is due back in the High Court in Cape Town on June 5 for sentencing.