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Lionel Petersen.
A FINAL FAREWELL: Friends and neighbours of Shaylin and Lionel Petersen gathered for a memori al service near their home on Thursday. Foto: Yunus Mohamed Shaylin Petersen.
Secret ‘to his grave’ TASMIN CUPIDO
A CRIME fighter. A human rights activist. A community leader. A child killer. Owen Shanmugan (47) will no longer be remembered for the good work he did for residents of the Hillview informal settlement. Instead, the man fondly known as Charra will be remembered for the gruesome murder of his son Lionel (2) and his girlfriend Yolandie Petersen’s daughter Shaylin (4) last week. In a failed suicide attempt, Shanmugan also slit his own throat and later died in hospital while in police custody. Hillview community worker Charmaine Pretorius tells how she was one of the first people at the scene after Shanmugan’s girl-
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from their daycare centres earlier that day. Petersen reportedly said she was in disbelief and trying to come to terms with the death of her children. The community is also still reeling of shock after last Wednesday’s brutal killings. This is not the first time Shanmugan was brought before the law for an act of violence upon a minor. Assault charges we brought against him after he kicked a 13-year-old boy on his back for allegedly “not respecting” him (“Leader on assault charges”, People’s Post, 3 August 2010). At the time residents voiced concerns about Shanmugan’s “leadership style”, stating he often threatened them. But Pretorius, who fought alongside Shanmugan for services such as water, sanitation
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friend ran to her for help screaming: “Charmaine ... Owen! Kom help my!” Pretorius immediately ran to the wooden structure and tried to open the door, which was bolted shut with a pole. “I opened the window and saw the lifeless, bloodied bodies of the children on the bed.” She phoned the police and asked some men who had gathered at the scene to force open the door. Once inside, they found Shanmugan lying on the floor in a pool of blood, still conscious. “We asked him who had done this to them, because we thought someone had broken into the home. He answered: ‘Ek, ek!’” The police then arrived, declaring both toddlers dead and arresting Shanmugan for murder. He had allegedly collected both children
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and electricity, is adamant her friend must be remembered for the “good” he did in the community. “I did not know him as a violent person. Nobody knows why he did what he did; that secret he took to his grave.” A memorial service was held for the toddlers in Hillview last week. They will be buried on Saturday. . It is believed Shanmugan was buried in his hometown in Durban yesterday (Monday).
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