The High Court in Johannesburg on Friday found 87-year-old Dieter Bergs guilty of shooting his 70-year-old wife, Genee, at their Parktown North home in 2014.
The lawyer of the man accused of killing his wife eight years ago argued his client is not guilty and attention should instead be shifted to two employees who were on the property on the night of the crime.
Fight to put mom’s ‘killer’ in the dock 20 December 2020 - 00:00
The pain of knowing that 70-year-old Genée Bergs had been brutally gunned down in her home drove her devastated daughter to push authorities to solve the crime, petitioning the police and National Prosecuting Authority to keep the case open.
Six years later, Bergs’s widower, Dieter Bergs, has been rearrested for her murder. The 85-year-old had been married to her for 15 years at the time of her death.
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