Postmortem expected to be vital in case against Miguel Louw’s killer

“Looking at the state of decomposition and weather patterns in the area preceding discovery, the time matches the period after which the deceased was last seen with the applicant [Ebrahim],” he said.

Govender added that an examination of Ebrahim’s cellphone revealed that in the days following Louw’s disappearance, he had not returned home to Phoenix.

Triangulation using cellphone towers, Govender said, had placed Ebrahim somewhere in the Durban city centre for three days before he was arrested.

In piecing together the moments that led to Miguel’s disappearance, investigators found that Ebrahim had entered the boy’s life as an acquaintance of his mother, Raylene. The two worked at the same butchery.

Ebrahim lived with the family at their Sydenham home for two weeks before having an altercation with Raylene over what Govender described as “unwanted romantic advances” from Ebrahim. 

When he was first arrested‚ Ebrahim was found in possession of Miguel’s original birth certificate and Raylene’s identity document.

His bail application continues.

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