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The state, along with a panel of experts from Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital, believes that Kyle Ruiters (28) should be declared a dangerous criminal.
This was the outcome of yesterday’s inquiry at the Western Cape High Court into whether Ruiters could be released once he has served his sentence.
Declaring an individual a dangerous criminal is rarely invoked, but Ruiters showed no remorse for his actions, which was echoed in the results of his psychiatric assessments, which met nearly all of the criteria for the anti-social personality disorder associated with psychopaths.
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Ruiters was convicted of the murder of Lynette Volschenk (32) after he was found with her dismembered body. Police found Volschenk chopped into pieces in two different apartments in the same building where both Ruiters and Volschenk lived.
Volschenk lived upstairs from Ruiters in the Seesig apartment building in Bellville.
On 21 August 2019, Ruiters stabbed Volschenk to death before using a hand-held saw he found in her apartment to dismember her body and dispose of it.
Neighbours reported hearing a woman scream accompanied by loud banging noises on the evening of the murder, but no one bothered to investigate. When she did not show up to work the following day, her sister and two co-workers went looking for her.
Parts of Volschenk’s body were found in her apartment, as well as Ruiters’. It is also alleged that her head was found in bushes about 400 metres from the apartment block.
According to the initial psychiatric report, Ruiters said he was fascinated by serial killers and spent time researching the topic extensively.
If the court declares Ruiters a dangerous criminal, he will spend an indefinite period behind bars and will only be considered for release after a psychiatric assessment proves he poses no threat to society and will not re-offend.
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Picture: Lynette Volschenk / Facebook