Cremer case heard in Cape Town

KNYSNA NEWS - Two years and nine months after former Knysna resident Meghan Cremer was found dead on 8 August 2019, the trial of her murder-accused, Jeremy Sias, has been ongoing in the Western Cape High Court.

After numerous postponements since Sias was taken into custody, the trial officially got underway on Monday 23 May in Cape Town. Sias (29) was arrested alongside two other individuals - Charles Daniels (41) and Shiraaz Jaftha (36).

Daniels and Jaftha have been charged separately for theft of a motor vehicle. Sias faces a total of four charges - murder, aggravated robbery, theft, and obstruction of justice.

Cremer (29), who lived on Vaderlandsche Rietvlei Farm in Philippi and worked at Woodstock Bakery, disappeared on 3 August 2019.

She was last seen at about 17:00. Cremer's body was found near a defunct sand mine on a nearby farm in the Philippi area, four days after she was reported missing. Police were led to her body by one of the suspects shortly after they were arrested.

Sias, Daniels and Jaftha first appeared in the Athlone Magistrate's Court on 8 August 2019, the day Cremer's body was found.

In late 2019 a petition with the appeal to deny bail for the accused amassed more than 62 000 signatures. The trio spent Christmas of 2019 in jail before the case returned to court in January 2020.

Meghan Cremer was an avid horserider.