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Apparently, Henri confessed to a friend
Henri van Breda, who Thursday maintained that he did NOT wipe out his entire family with an axe, apparently confessed to a friend.
According to sources in the police and National Prosecution Authority (NPA), Rapport has gathered that Stefan van der Westhuizen (23), a former friend of Henri, approached authorities with this information.
With Henri's guilty verdict last week, court goers looked up with surprise when van der Westhuizen started audibly sobbing.
"Oh, my friend...." he sighed and wiped tears from his eyes while police officers led a handcuffed Henri out of court.
Henri wants to appeal against the finding that he killed his father, Martin, mother, Teresa, and brother, Rudi, and attempted to kill his sister, Marli.
Van der Westhuizen is currently being treated for depression in a Cape clinic.
He told Rapport that he was very close to Henri and Marli.
He met the van Bredas in 2015, and they often hung out together. They often went to eat sushi, chatted and smoked together.
During his trial, Henri was charged with possession of marijuana. He was acquitted when his girlfriend Danielle Janse van Rensburg admitted that it was her marijuana.
Van der Westhuizen said that the only danger lights that initially flickered for him was Henri's taste in music. "I absolutely hated the rock music that Henri played in his car, but I didn't want to tell him. It would have broken his heart", he said embarrassed.
But the relationship soured in the fall of 2016.
Henri invited him one evening to go and see the horror movie Hardcore Henry, In Claremont, he told us. The character Henry gets raised from the dead and is part man and part robot. His memory is wiped out and he has to save his wife from a psychopath who wants to take over the world.
Van der Westhuizen was sceptic, because the movie started at 11:00pm. He remember especially how gruesome the movie was, and how ironic the title was.
On another event, they were on their way to the movies in the Cavendish shopping centre in Claremont.
'Henri was unusually quiet, something was off; I don't know if he was ill."
" I could tell something was bothering, I just had to know precisely what."
Then they drove. "I up", Henri suddenly said.
Van der Westhuizen was speechless and confused by this sudden remark.
"I will never forget the emotion in Henri's eyes, the tears....", he said. The rest of the ride was in silence.
"I felt as if my heart was on fire, as if I could grab Henri by the throat. Just the thought that I might be sitting next to a murderer!"
The mirror finally broke between them when Van der Westhuizen shortly after told him that he thought Marli was starting to believe that is was her brother that attacked them.
"He became red in the face", said Van der Westhuizen.
In a fit of rage, Henri grabbed him by the throat, he said. After this incident, the two saw each other less.
Van der Westhuizen came to support Henri once or twice in court. He smiles embarrassed and said: "Henri wasn't that nice to me anymore."
Adv Louise Buikman, Marli's trustee, is going to present a report about the 19-year-old girl tomorrow in the high court.
She also has to present reasons for why her trusteeship should be extended or have to be ended.
The State argued for aggravation of Henri's sentence that Marli has to live with the knowledge that her brother had attacked their family.