Hi,
If you follow this link, it will provide links to other articles about the trial. Pic of the so-called father at the link. He and his family wanted nothing to do with the baby because he is white and the mother is coloured :loser:
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1877660,00.html
Cape Town - Even although baby Jordan-Leigh Norton had not been part of his life, she was "always in my heart", the infant's biological father Neil Wilson told the Cape High Court on Wednesday.
Wilson was testifying for the State in the trial of his former lover, Dina Rodrigues, and the three men and a boy she allegedly paid to kill the child on June 15 last year.
Rodrigues and co-accused Zanethemba Gwada, Sipho Mfazwe, Mongezi Bobotyane and a 16-year-old youth have pleaded not guilty to all charges, including murder and conspiracy to murder.
Wilson told the court he had a previous relationship with Jordan's mother, Natasha Norton, and that Dina was "very upset, very angry" when a paternity test showed he was the child's father.
"She actually wanted to break up... she didn't want to believe it. She might have been a bit jealous," he said.
Had not tried to see baby
As far as he could recall, he saw the baby once, at the paternity test, although he might have seen the child and its mother in shopping malls, too, Wilson told the court under cross-examination by Rodrigues' advocate John van der Berg.
He had not attempted to visit her.
"Not once?" asked Van der Berg.
"No," replied Wilson, who is a physical education teacher at a southern suburbs primary school.
"I bought her something at Christmas time, but I didn't give it to her."
Asked whether he had drawn a curtain between himself and the Nortons and the baby, he said this was not accurate.
"She (the baby) was always in my heart, in my mind. I was thinking about it all the time," he said, to gasps from the public gallery, packed with Norton supporters.
'Paid for it to go away...'
Earlier he told the court that about 13:00 on the day of the murder he received an SMS message from Rodrigues saying she needed to speak to him urgently.
He phoned her back.
"She said to me that 'your baby is dead' and that she had paid R10 000... for all of it to go away," said Wilson.
"She was very emotional on the other side. I asked her what she had done and why she had done it. I was very upset and very emotional."
Asked by the prosecutor, Nicolette Bell, what he understood by what Dina told him, he said: "I didn't understand any of it.
"I thought it was a hoax. I didn't understand what was going on."
He said Dina had SMSed him about two months before the killing, asking what she could do to "make it all go away".
He asked her at that time what she meant, but she would not tell him.
The next day, when they reported to police for interviews with detectives, Dina broke down crying in a waiting room.
Tells of SMSs
"She said to me 'Oh my God, what have I done? What have I done? I'm going to jail'."
Later in his testimony, Wilson added that Dina had told him in their phone conversation on the day of the murder that she could not be linked to the "situation".
After the conversation, Dina had SMSed him, and he replied.
"I told her I hated what she had done, I hate her. She told me I mustn't make her feel bad, she feels bad already," he said.
He deleted the messages the following day at Rodrigues' request.
Asked why, he said: "I still had a lot of feelings for Dina. I didn't want anything to happen to her. That's why I did it."
He conceded that he lied to investigating officer Esmerald Bailey when he said in an initial statement that he did not know who was responsible for the killing.
"I did have the knowledge and I didn't tell her," he said.
Faces intimidation charge
Wilson also told the court he was living in fear of his life after two threatening text messages, one telling him to "Start praying, dumb ****".
Rodrigues faces a charge of intimidation relating to the messages.
Police confirmed on Wednesday that Rodrigues' older brother, Orlando, was released on R500 bail after allegedly threatening Wilson at the High Court on Monday. Orlando is alleged to have run his finger across his throat.
JellyBean
