Murder cover-up investigated: Eileen Venter, 94, found with blunt-force trauma head injuries: police open inquest after mystery-death 23 Nov 2015
18 December 2015 -- The "George Nuus" journalist Alida de Beer reports that an urgent inquest probe has been launched afer the blood-coated body of 94-year-old Afrikaner woman Eileen Venter was
found by a neighbour on 23 November 2015. The neighbour, who is too terrified to be identified and installed a security gate at her own garden-cottage shortly after Mrs Venter's death, had found the frail old lady at around 10h30am on the floor of her garden-flat in the Dutch Reformed Church's Tuiniqua elderly-residents complex in the centre of George.
Somehow the ambulance service was summonsed and the body taken to the funeral home before the police was notified. Other worrying facts were that a doctor had refused to sign her death certificate when he noticed 'severe head injuries' on her body.
Also, the traumatised family discovered that personal items were missing from her flat, the blood had been wiped away and two mats and a pillow had been washed shortly after she was taken to the Dove funeral home. At that stage, police had still not been notified. One of her granddaughters, Ulricke Petho, said that the funeral director had told the family at around 08h00 on the morning that her cremation was scheduled, that the police had fetched her body for a post-mortem examination due to the 'unnatural death' notation made by a doctor who refused to sign her death certificate. She also was given two of her grandmother's slippers and a man's sports-shoe which had been left on the barbed-wire fence of the
property by a black man who had climbed across the fence shortly after her grandmother's death.
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Her parents Colleen and Evert Kelder were told by people at the garden-apartment complex that Mrs Venter had 'died of a massive heart attack'...
However, this made them even more suspicious as there had been blood at the scene. "However my parents were told that she had probably fallen down and was injured that way."
What made her parents even more suspicious was the fact that her apartment had been cleaned and all the blood wiped away: and two of the mats and a pillow were also washed.
The police spokeswoman Lt Annacletta Mothoalo told the George Nuus in reaction to their enquiry that 'the people who had found the dead woman had phoned the ambulance service
and paramedics declared her dead at the scene. Then the Dove Funeral service was called and they fetched Mrs Venter's body."
At that point, the police had not been notified of the 'unnatural death' - which should have been done. The family then ordered Mrs Venter's body moved to the AVBOB funeral home because she had a funeral-policy there.
Mothoalo said that AVBOB 's manager had told them that the doctor who was asked to sign the death certificate, refused to do so when he examined her and 'head injuries' on the dead
woman and he had then asked for a post-mortem examination at the police forensic department.
"The finding of this examination was that she had died from a head-injury caused by a blunt force trauma,' said Lt Mothoalo.
Petho said that the claim made by others at the apartment that her grandmother had died of a heart attack, didn't make any sense. "We were too traumatised that morning when we went to Tuiniqua to view her body - and my father had an appointment to confirm her identity at
the funeral home. My grandmother was healthy and strong. She attended weekly trim-classes, completed crossword-puzzles and enjoyed playing cards with my mom,' said the granddaughter.
Petho and her mother also were upset and suspicious to find so many of her grandmother's belonging missing from her apartment when they went there to pack her belongings.
"My grandmother's flat had been cleaned when we arrived - but I could not understand why her dressing-table was so messed up as my grandmother was a very neat and orderly person'.
Missing were her cellphone, flashlight, battery-loader, an enlarging glass she used to read with, two jewellery-pieces she always wore, and a ring.
Petho said that the neighbour-lady who had found her grandmother's body told her that she had stopped by to tell her grandmother that she was going to the doctor and would be absent
for a while. However when she called at Mrs Venter's front-door and tried the door-handle, 'it felt to her as if someone was standing on the other side of the door, holding the handle up so that she couldn't open the door.'
"After she tried several times to get inside, she returned to her own apartment to get ready to go to the doctor. Just before her departure she went to Mrs Venter's flat
again - and then she was able to get inside and found her dead.' The George Herald tried to speak to the neighbour-lady herself but she was too scared and didn't want her name published.
The head of the apartment complex Tuinique Mrs Hannetjie Neuper 'didn't want to give any comment'. She said that 'they had given the necessary information to the police'.
Mrs Venter leaves two children, seven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. She had been a resident of the protected garden apartment complex for the past eight years.
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Man flees with bags across fence:
George Nuus: 18 December 2015. On the day of her death, the late Mrs Eileen Venter's slippers and a man's sports-shoe were left behind when a man fled across a fence of the Tuiniqua garden-apartment complex
next to the Dutch Reformed Church in the centre of George. A man was seen fleeing with two plastic bags filled with stuff climbing across the barbed-wire fencing of neighbour Truida Oosthuizen's erf which borders Tuiniqua's property.
Mrs Oosthuizen spotted the man when he jumped across the fence to the neighbour's fence next to their garage, she told the George Herald journalist Alida de Beer.
She watched from her TV room as the man got up from the neighbour's garden with his bags. "He couldn't get out from their side-gate. I asked him twice what he was carrying. He looked at me sideways
and disappeared rapidly around the corner of the house. He climbed across their fence at the front of their home and walked in the direction of the police station in
Ironside Street, she said. She alerted the police but they arrived too late to track the man down.
Mrs Oosthuizen took a picture of the paid of slippers and a tackie which remained behind on the wire-fencing and placed it on the facebook page
"Georgiete staan Saam" (People in George Stand Together) .
The dead woman's granddaughter, Ms Petho, contacted Mrs Oosthuizen and she handed over the found items which the man had left behind on the fence.
Amongst those items were the tip of her grandmother's hairdryer and some hair-clips.
Petho said this incident strengthened the family's suspicions that her grandmother had been murdered.
"I resent the way the Tuiniqua management has handled this and they way they treated us. It appears as if they are trying to cover this up'.
The George Herald was unable to confirm that a security-video had registered the man with two bags on the property.
There have reportedly been various incidents in the past few years where the elderly residents were awakened by alarming incidents such as knocks on their windows and doors,
and attempts to break in. There have been break-ins in cars on the terrain.
And the neighbour-lady who found Mrs Venter, was one of the first residents of the complex who purchased an extra security gate.
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