NATIONAL NEWS - The trial of an SANDF soldier, charged with causing the death of a young bride on the way to a guest house on her wedding night, continues in the Pretoria North Regional Court.
Details of the heart-wrenching death in a car crash of a bride on her way to the wedding-night reception played out in court this week.
Hours after Chantal and Louwrens Geldenhuys exchanged vows in a church north of Pretoria, the couple was involved in a horror smash when an alleged intoxicated soldier drove into them, killing the bride and seriously injuring the groom.
Sergeant-Major Abram Themba had pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and reckless or negligent driving in the Pretoria North Regional Court earlier.
Themba allegedly skipped a red traffic light shortly after midnight on 2 December 2012 at the corner of Dr Van der Merwe and Sefako Makgatho drives.
Themba was driving a white Toyota Hilux bakkie, and according to earlier testimony in court, had to be helped out of his vehicle by Warrant Officer Jan Booysen.
Hours after Chantal and Louwrens Geldenhuys exchanged vows in a church north of Pretoria, the couple was involved in a horror smash when an alleged intoxicated soldier drove into them, killing the bride and seriously injuring the groom.
Sergeant-Major Abram Themba had pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and reckless or negligent driving in the Pretoria North Regional Court earlier.
Themba allegedly skipped a red traffic light shortly after midnight on 2 December 2012 at the corner of Dr Van der Merwe and Sefako Makgatho drives.
Themba was driving a white Toyota Hilux bakkie, and according to earlier testimony in court, had to be helped out of his vehicle by Warrant Officer Jan Booysen.
