WHILE Dirk Prinsloo started to serve his 13-year jail sentence in Belarus last week for a failed bank robbery committed there, his blonde former girlfriend, Cezanne Visser - better known as Advocate Barbie - is due to hear her fate this week.
Sentencing procedures are expected to last for the entire week, starting today, with the defence calling at least three experts to testify in mitigation of sentence. It is not known whether the State will call any witnesses to justify why Visser should receive a harsh sentence.
Visser's advocate, Johann Engelbrecht SC - one of the best criminal lawyers in the country - was trying to obtain the record of Prinsloo's recent trial in Belarus, as the tales of the women in that country regarding the former advocate, who fathered children with two of them, in many instances echo that of Visser.
Although they were never involved in indecent acts with children or other women, some of the other women in Prinsloo's life also had tattoos bearing his face and name on their bodies. They, too, described their life of hell with Prinsloo and the sadistic sex to which they were subjected.
Prinsloo left Visser, the woman who was once the love of his life, to face an array of sex charges on her own when he fled the country in 2006.
This week is expected to mark the end of a long court battle for Visser, who was arrested together with Prinsloo at the end of 2002.
She and Prinsloo pleaded not guilty to 15 mostly sex-related charges when their trial started in 2005. Prinsloo made a dash for freedom ayear later.
When the former trial judge, Essop Patel, passed away in 2007, Visser once again pleaded not guilty, this time before Acting Judge Chris Eksteen.
Although she did not dispute much of what the female victims testified about what she and Prinsloo had done to them, Visser this time around based her defence on the abused-woman's syndrome. She claimed she was so totally under Prinsloo's "evil spell" that she hardly had a will of her own left.
But Judge Eksteen in October last year convicted Visser on 11 sex-related charges, including the indecent assault of two orphaned girls - aged 11 and 14 at the time - and soliciting a 15-year-old to commit sexual acts.
He found that Visser had acted with a will of her own and tried to hide behind Prinsloo as a justification for what she had done.
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