Instead, Smit told the Knysna-Plett Herald today between huge sobs that she was so broken, that her heart was "in many pieces", that she could not even think of opening her birthday gift, "not now, maybe some time when I can think of getting over this shock".
Today would also have been the three and a half year anniversary date they met.
Lomas' dreams of finishing the last six months of his BComm Financial Management degree will also never come true now despite having paid his way through Stellenbosch University and now this last year through Unisa.
While Lomas (23) was in Knysna working for event company Ignite Events at the Pick n Pay Knysna Oyster Festival's Windhoek Lager tent, his very latest university results came out. He achieved five distinctions.
What happened in the fateful early hours of Sunday morning is very unclear to the family and what has followed since has not shed much light on events.
