`Heartbreak` before teacher found slain
(World News South Africa)

Next »  1  2 By Zelda Venter High Court Reporter The German caretaker of the Deutsche Schule, Gerhard Sippel, was upset and heartbroken when his former girlfriend, schoolteacher Ina Halfter, told him she was going back to her former boyfriend and would be returning to Germany when her contract ended. Fellow caretaker Mischa Mitchell said this in testifying for the State on Tuesday, the first day of Sippel`s murder trial in the Pretoria High Court. Sippel, 47, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Halfter in her townhouse at the Equestria Estate in April last year. He has chosen to...