Couple’s dinner row ends in death
One minute they were socialising with family and a friend over drinks and a planned post-midnight chicken dinner; the next there was bloodshed.
|||Durban - One minute they were socialising with family and a friend over drinks and a planned post-midnight chicken dinner; the next there was bloodshed as an “enraged” woman allegedly repeatedly stabbed her alleged lover with a kitchen knife.
Just moments earlier, the 47-year-old woman was busy cutting up takeaway chicken at the man’s home in Shallcross when an argument ensued and she allegedly charged at him in the adjoining bedroom, knife in hand.
Trevor Pillay, 46, a divorced father of two and a driver for Atlas Printers, staggered towards the kitchen, where he collapsed on the floor.
“We are unsure what the argument was about,” said his devastated older brother, Alvin. “She stabbed him the first time, and although the friend and her father tried to stop her, because they were intoxicated she overpowered them and just kept stabbing him.”
Alvin said he was not present during the fatal brawl in the early hours of Saturday. He said his brother, the woman accused of his murder, her father and a friend were in the home, a rented outbuilding.
“According to the friend, they had bought takeaways and the three men were seated in the bedroom. The woman was cutting chicken in the kitchen when the pair started arguing.”
After she “became enraged” and allegedly attacked Trevor, she and her father fled, he said, taking the murder weapon with them. “The landlord and other tenants were not home and the friend did not have a cellphone to call for help. He left my brother in the house and ran to his home for help.”
Alvin said the friend’s relatives contacted police and paramedics.
“The friend called me around 2am to tell me what had happened. I will never forget that call. When I arrived at the house I was not allowed to go in. From the outside I could see him lying face down, covered in blood.”
Alvin said the hardest thing he had to do was break the news to their 70-year-old mother, Rosy Pillay.
“She is shattered and we are trying to be strong for her at this time.”He said police later arrested the woman but her father was still on the run.
The Pillays said they had warned Trevor that the woman’s “aggressive behaviour” might one day lead to his death.
“My brother was a calm person who would never hurt a fly,” said Alvin. “They have been companions for seven years. At first she was nice, but later on we saw her true colours.”
He said one day his brother came home with scratch marks on his face and when he confronted him, his brother said the woman had caused them.
“On another occasion, he called me for help because she had stabbed him. I advised him to leave her but he never listened. He just took the verbal and physical abuse.”
Alvin described his brother as one who always put the needs of others before his own.
“He did not deserve to die in this manner and we want justice. She cannot walk free and must pay for her crime.”
The friend declined to comment on the incident.
Police spokesman Major Thulani Zwane confirmed that a case of murder was being investigated by Chatsworth police.
The accused appeared in the Chatsworth Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday and was remanded in custody. The matter was adjourned for seven days pending a bail application.
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