Mother’s horror discovery – The Star

She lay naked and motionless on the floor of the bedroom. for an hour, the desperate mother had screamed at curtained windows: “Chantelle, it’s mama. Can you hear me?”

Nearly 12 hours earlier, at noon on Friday, 20-year-old Chantelle Barnard had driven to Benoni to drop a key with her former landlord’s 33-year-old son. She, her boyfriend Brandon Arckerman and his mother Letitia had moved out of a townhouse on the same property the day before.

The accused was due to appear in the Benoni Magistrate’s Court this morning, where he was expected to face charges relating to Chantelle’s murder. Next Monday she would have been celebrating her 21st birthday.

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