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Allison Plaatjies was found with her head almost decapitated and severe bite marks on her face on 26 October 2019 in her flat in Katjiepiering Street, Clanwilliam.
April initially pleaded guilty to murder. The State rejected his watered-down version of events and proved he planned to murder his ex-girlfriend in 2019.
When Clanwilliam school teacher Allison Plaatjies did not want to see her ex-boyfriend Philip April anymore, he murdered her so violently that three pieces of a broken knife were taken out of her lifeless body. He also bit a hole through her lip, and left her head hanging almost completely sliced off.