Different versions

South Africa -- A 23-year-old man is charged with murdering his parents in Crown North, Johannesburg, in October last year.

His sister, 18, and his wife, 22, are charged with being accessories to the crime and defeating the ends of justice.

Different versions of the event of the murders, which occurred on the first day of Ramadan, were heard in court. One version suggested that the father, 50, had killed his wife and, in revenge, his son had shot him dead.

Another version suggested that on the night in question, the mother, 49, had shot her husband before turning the gun on herself.

The state prosecutor was fired up on Tuesday, the first day of the trial. She put it to the court that on the night in question, at about 11 p.m., the accused, a firearms instructor and a black belt in karate, had entered his parents' bedroom and pumped six bullets into his father as he lay sleeping. Then he followed his mother into the bathroom and shot her in the face.

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