The state alleges that Pillay killed Govindsamy because he believed that she was seeing someone else. He was in a relationship with the married mother of two before it soured in September last year.
On the morning of September 21 last year‚ Sagren Govindsamy entered his flat through a window as no one answered the door the night before, when he returned from working a 2-10pm shift. He told police that he did not have house keys, so he had knocked on the door. When his wife and two daughters did not answer‚ he left to spend the night at his mother's house.
When he entered the flat on Friday morning‚ he found his wife's lifeless body in her bedroom and 16-year-old Rackelle's body in the second bedroom. They had both been gagged.
Sniffer dogs found Denisha's body hidden in a wardrobe in the bedroom.
Delivering the state's closing arguments on Monday, senior prosecutor Cheryl Naidu alleged that Govindsamy had ended the relationship, which had left Pillay angry and frustrated.
She said the state had proved beyond reasonable doubt that Pillay had killed the trio in the manner laid out in court. "It is absolutely clear that everything that the accused has said in his defence is absolute fabrication," she added.
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