{Cape Town \u2013 Men accused of killing two women in separate incidents in Cape Town are set to return to court on Monday.}<\/p>\n
The State opposed bail for the alleged killers of Kuils River mother Zarah-Jane Hector and American marketing consultant Gabriela Kabrins Alban.<\/p>\n
In the first case, Ronaldo van Rooyen, 34, and Tafiq Ibrahim, 26, were arrested shortly after Hector\u2019s body was discovered.<\/p>\n
She disappeared on March 15 after she left the Oostenberg Lodge in Kuils River where she worked.<\/p>\n
The BMW Z3 she was driving was later found in Observatory and her body was discovered on a farm in Groot Drakenstein, nine days after her disappearance.<\/p>\n
The two are accused of killing her by beating her to death with a hammer in Van Rooyen\u2019s garage.<\/p>\n
Ibrahim later dropped his bail bid. Van Rooyen did not apply for bail.<\/p>\n
The pair would appear in the Blue Downs Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n
In a separate matter, Guatemalan murder accused Diego Dougherty would appear in the Cape Town Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n
Dougherty was charged with murder after Kabrins Alban, his girlfriend, was found dead in their room at the upmarket Camps Bay Retreat Hotel on July 29 last year.<\/p>\n
At his last appearance, the court heard she had died due to strangulation and had blunt force trauma to the face.<\/p>\n
The investigating officer said in an affidavit that nothing was stolen from her and there was no forensic evidence to suggest a third person was in the room at the time of the assault.<\/p>\n
It also emerged during his bail application that Dougherty intended pleading not guilty to the murder.<\/p>\n
The court was asked to consider diminished responsibility by way of drug intoxication, as per a psychiatric report, despite him being able to appreciate the wrongfulness of his actions.<\/p>\n
The State believed he was a flight risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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