Family shattered by death of Miguel Louw's father
The family members of murdered Sydenham boy, Miguel Louw say they're devastated after the child's father passed away amid preparations for the 10-year-old's one year memorial.
Kirk Louw suffered a heart attack yesterday.
In a statement to Newswatch, Tasnim Dos Santos, Miguel's aunt, says Kirk Louw cried every day after losing his son.
He always talked about his boy.
She says the family will miss him dearly and have now been left shattered again, by Kirk's death.
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Miguel's memorial will be held in two weeks time.
His badly decomposed body was found in a bush in Phoenix in September, a month after he disappeared from outside Rippon Primary School in Sydenham.
Mohammed Ebrahim stands accused of murdering the little boy.
It emerged during Ebrahim's bail application last year, that Miguel was killed apparently to teach Raylene Louw, his mother, a lesson.
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Ebrahim maintains he was in a relationship with her, something that the family denies.
