Ellen Pakkies is a South African notorious for strangling her violent and abusive drug-addict son, Abie Pakkies in 2007.
Ellen Pakkies was born in 1963. Ellen Pakkies had a very painful childhood as she suffered from various abuses ranging from physical assault to rape.
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The abuses Ellen Pakkies suffered as a child ‘led’ her to murder her own son, Abie Pakkies because she feared that he wanted to rape her.
Is Ellen Pakkies still married?
Ellen Pakkies is married to Odneal Pakkies. In fact, the day before Ellen Pakkies strangled Albie Pakkies, Ellen had planned to go shopping for jeans in the company of her husband Odneal Pakkies.
Abie Pakkies’ brother Rudolph and Odneal Pakkies stood by Ellen Pakkies in the ensuing months after the murder of Abie Pakkies.
In fact, Odneal Pakkies paid half of Ellen Pakkies’ bail of R1,000 when she was at the Pollsmoor Prison.
Ellen Pakkies Son
Ellen made world headlines in 2007 when she admitted to strangling her son, Abie Pakkies to death in his tiny shack at the back of her home.
Ellen Pakkies told the court that Abie Pakkies had been terrorizing her and her husband for years, stealing from her and breaking all her windows and even assaulting her in fits of rage when she refused to feed his tik habit. Abie Pakkies allegedly became a tik addict at age 14.
Ellen Pakkies’ account evoked different emotions on her pain-filled life, which might have driven her to commit the offence that she now regrets.
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Ellen Pakkies Movie
The Ellen Pakkies Story is a South African drama film directed by Daryne Joshua which detailed Ellen Pakkies’s real-life experiences. The Ellen Pakkies movie was released on Friday, 7 September 2018.
The rape scenes in the Ellen Pakkies movie are very traumatizing and are a true reflection of what she may have undergone earlier.
The Ellen Pakkies movie was screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and was later chosen to compete at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2018.
Ellen Pakkies Cast
Jill Levenberg starred as Ellen Pakkies and Jarrid Geduld as Abie Pakkies. Other casts for the movie are; Elton Landrew, Clint Brink and Ilse Klink.
Ellen Pakkies In Real Life
Ellen Pakkies is reported to have calmly given her statement to the officer on duty at the Steenberg police station, after which she was charged for murder.
Ellen Pakkies was taken into custody and transferred to Pollsmoor Prison, where she spent two weeks while she awaited bail which was set at R1000.
A few days after her release on bail, Ellen Pakkies read the tribute to Abie Pakkies at his funeral.
During the trial, a clinical psychologist summed up Ellen Pakkies’ mental state with the following words:
Under that type of extreme circumstances, people reach what is known as the limit situation the crime must be seen in the context of that desperation.
Ellen Pakkies was at the premiere of the Ellen Pakkies Movie and she sobbed as the film was introduced.
Source: abtc.ng