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‘I have never seen such a gruesome attack on a child’

27 August 2020 - 07:00 By Aron Hyman
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The man charged with killing Delvinia Europa had previously been convicted.
The man charged with killing Delvinia Europa had previously been convicted.
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Children don’t play on the streets in the small Overberg town of Elim, following the unspeakably brutal rape and murder of a six-year-old girl.

So shocking was the killing of Delvinia Europa that the investigating officer said he was so traumatised he "would have shot that man dead".

 

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