The trial into the brutal slaying of Hague hairdresser Bibi Saymar ended without a conviction, leaving behind lingering questions over just how glaring pieces of evidence could have been ignored or possibly forgotten.
A neighbour seeing one of the accused leaving the crime scene, inconsistences in the woman’s reputed husband’s story, a caution statement implicating both accused and the discovery of money in the getaway car, are all pieces of a puzzle which when fitted together tells of a well-executed murder for hire plan.
The freeing of the accused—one on appeal of his committal and the other just recently at a High Court trial—has raised niggling questions and those close to the case believe that the police had gathered enough evidence which would have ensured that the case ended differently. It would have been up to the prosecution to ensure that a
