‘Demon boy’ back in court

The teenager was convicted of the multiple murders last year after he admitted to killing his mother, grandmother, younger brother and his four-month old baby sister in 2013.

The accused, who was 14 at the time, claimed to have been possessed by a demon after researching satanism on the internet.

This allegedly led to him and a friend carrying out a satanic ritual daily for three days before the killings.

Judge Hennie de Vos postponed the trial last Monday to allow interviews with the teenager, now aged 16, and with his aunt, his guardian, and with the defence and prosecution teams.

In his plea explanation, the teenager said that on the day of the killings, he had smoked dagga with friends, and upon arriving home, he started to feel not like his usual self.

The teenager claimed to have heard a voice in his head calling out, “kill them, kill them.”

“When I looked at my family, I saw them as if they were covered in blood,” the teenager said,

He added he then hacked his mother, his grandmother and brother to death before taking his baby sister outside to kill her.

“I felt huge anger in me during this incident,” the teenager testified.

Last year, two teenage boys were arrested for the apparent satanic killings of two high school girls in Dobsonville, Soweto.

The girls were found in a field wearing their school uniforms, and they had cuts on their hands and necks, while three black candles and two new razor blades were found at the scene.

– Caxton News Services