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TWO GANGSTERS JAILED AS YOUNG CONSTABLE CRACKS COLD CASES
Cracking detective LAUREN O’CONNOR-MAY
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T
he moment detective Const Jade Jacobs knows a case is watertight, he feels a surge of energy. “It’s like something that shakes in your body or moves — electricity — that I get when I get a conviction or I arrest someone,” the 29-year-old detective at Lentegeur Police Station’s serious and violent crime unit said. That surge struck twice in recent months, after Jacobs closed two cold cases for murder that had been handed to him as files to learn on when he joined the unit in 2022. The killers, who were both gangsters, received 15year prison sentences. LEARNING ON COLD CASES Jacobs has been in the police service for seven years. Within three months of joining Lentegeur Police Station from Steenberg, his commanding officer moved him to the serious and violent crime unit because he had been studying investigation through Unisa and knew the area well. He has lived there for 22 years. The Aloe High alum was given old, unsolved dockets to work on which he inherited from officers no longer with the police. “They gave me dockets for me to learn on and to investigate,” he said. “Although I wasn’t experienced in police investigation, because I studied investigation and it’s to do with law, I had knowledge. I’m a quick learner.” A MURDER FROM 2015 One docket dated back to Sunday 1 February 2015. There were no leads and no witnesses. The victim — a father — had been stabbed at a party.
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Detective Const Jade Jacobs
When Jacobs received the docket in 2023, he went back to the area, spoke to neighbours and visited the house where the attack had taken place. He tracked down the man who had given the victim a lift to hospital. Then he tracked down the girlfriend of the main suspect, who could not be traced at the time. After interviewing her and bringing her to understand that she would be complicit, she gave
him the full account of what had happened that night. She said that the man had been stabbed after an argument broke out over alcohol and money. According to the neighbour who had rushed him to hospital, the man had come running up to him desperate for help. As they drove, the dying man named his attacker. Those were his last words. Armed with a warrant of arrest
and a solid case, Jacobs brought Morne Kock, a gang member, to court. Kock pleaded guilty. On Monday 30 March this year he was sentenced to 15 years in prison at the Mitchells Plain Magistrates’ Court. CLOSURE For the victim’s family, the news was almost too much to believe. TO PAGE 2
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