I’m being tortured, whines ‘Isis’ man accused of killing elderly botanists

The man at the centre of the kidnapping and gruesome murder of Cape Town-based British botanists Rod and Rachel Saunders spun a tale of torture and seclusion in the country’s most secure prison.

Horticulturalist and BBC presenter Nick Bailey, left, posted this selfie with Britons Rod and Rachel Saunders on February 8 2018. The couple was murdered soon afterwards.
Horticulturalist and BBC presenter Nick Bailey, left, posted this selfie with Britons Rod and Rachel Saunders on February 8 2018. The couple was murdered soon afterwards. (Nick Bailey via Twitter)

The man at the centre of the kidnapping and gruesome murder of Cape Town-based British botanists Rod and Rachel Saunders has claimed that he was tortured and secluded in the country’s most secure prison.

In a rare and fleeting moment beyond the walls of the Ebongweni maximum security prison in Kokstad, Sayfydeen Aslam Del Vecchio found his voice in the dock of the Verulam Magistrate’s Court.