A 16-year-old boy appeared in the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charge of murder, committed on ten-year-old, Anthony Cort. The teenager appeared before Magistrate Alicia George where the indictable charge of murder was read to him. The court was told that the murder took place in the course of the furtherance of a robbery on March 11th. 10-year-old Anthony Cort was shot dead by one of two bandits who were demanding cash and jewelry while he and his mother were at a neighbours C Field Sophia home. According to the Police, the sixteen-year-old male was arrested on 12th March in relation to the murder and was today charged under Section 100 (1) (C) (i) of the Criminal Law (Offences) Act Chapter 8:01.
He was remanded to the Sophia Juvenile Holding Centre and will make his next court appearance on May 12th. Denise Mc Pherson, Cort’s mother said they were invited to a little get-together and within minutes of their arrival, gunmen invaded the home and held them up at gunpoint. The woman said Anthony and his friend were upstairs in the bedroom playing games, totally unaware of what was taking place, and as he exited the bedroom, he was shot by the bandits and died on the spot.
Cort attended the St Ambrose Primary School and was preparing to write the grade 6 assessment exams this August.