The blood on HvBs pyjama pants, T-shirt and elsewhere in the home could help solve the mystery surrounding the axe murders of the family.
The State's forensic evidence includes the long grey pyjama pants which HvB said in his statement he'd worn on the night of the murders. The police had kept the pants because they seemingly had blood on them. The evidence included black women's panties which possibly also had blood on them.
Independent experts spoken to by Netwerk24 said the State and Henri's version of what happened would depend on the testimony of blood spatter experts particularly.
Capt. Joubert of the police's forensic laboratory, who also testified in the OP trial, will probably be called to testify.
Wes van der Westhuizen of Wesco of Forensic Services, who helped analyse the blood spatter patterns in the OP case, said, "Blood spatter patterns and DNA will find the accused in the axe murders guilty or acquit him. The victims all had head wounds, so there was a lot of blood. The attacker would obviously also have been full of blood and if he had walked around in the house, there would have been blood dripping from the murder weapon."
He also said it is probably possible to determine where the attacker had stood, how the blood had got on the grey pants and where blood might possibly have been washed off in the house.
According to the State's list of evidence a mop and nine dishcloths were analysed, although there hadn't been obvious blood stains on them. There was, however, blood in the corner of the shower and on a towel.
The State alleges that HvB tampered with the scene after the murders.
Another independent expert said if there was DNA from Marli on the clothes HvB was wearing that night, it would raise many questions. "Nowhere in his statement did the accused say that he tried to help the victims or that he touched them."
The experts say Henri's explanations can in all probability be tested with the forensic evidence.
Defence witnesses will include Dr Reggie Perumal, Pathologist, Cobus Steyl, a ballistics expert who can testify about the projection of the axe which allegedly was thrown, and Dr Mike du Trevou, a neurosurgeon who can testify about HvBs injuries which apparently left him unconscious.
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