MORE than six years after a brutal petrol attack on his estranged wife, a suspect found himself back in the Richards Bay Regional Court on Thursday.
Pieter Marius Bezuidenhout (42) faces charges of attempted murder and arson, pertaining to an incident at the St Tropez residential complex in Arboretum Extension in February 2011.
Bezuidenhout was charged after allegedly physically beating his then wife, pouring petrol down her mouth and rubbing her body and his with a petrol-soaked rag and threatening to set them both alight.
Hearing her screams, a neighbour responded and subdued the attacker after first extinguishing a blaze he had started in their garage.
His wife, who has since remarried, was severely injured and traumatised in the attack.
After skipping bail and being on the run for some time, Bezuidenhout was reportedly re-arrested in Gauteng this week and brought to Richards Bay to stand trial.
The case has been provisionally postponed to 17 August.
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