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South African Carla Van Eeden.

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Jury rules Carla was ‘murdered’

THE mysterious hanging of a 25-year-old South African woman at the Atlantis resort last year was a homicide, a jury found yesterday.

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Atlantis death - suicide or murder?

THE older brother of a South African woman found hanged in a room at the Atlantis resort last year, yesterday urged a jury to find that his sister was murdered. He said the injuries found on her corpse did not point to a suicide.

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Woman found dead in hotel room ‘had dispute with couple over payment of drinks’

The last known social interaction of South African Carla Van Eeden, who was found hanging in a room in Atlantis, involved a “dispute” with an unknown couple over paying for drinks, Atlantis employees have testified.

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Pathologist’s shock at ‘staged suicide’ evidence: I’m dumbfounded

A LOCAL pathologist yesterday said he was “dumfounded” at a suggestion from his South African counterpart that a woman found hanged in her Atlantis hotel room was embroiled in a “violent struggle” and sustained over 60 injuries before her death.

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Friend says woman found hanging in Atlantis room was not suicidal

A CLOSE friend of the 25-year-old South African woman found hanging from a cellphone lanyard in an Atlantis hotel room last year insisted on Friday that her friend was not suicidal.

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Hotel death – No signs of crime: Atlantis’ expert suggests woman ‘strangled herself’

AN American homicide detective yesterday counteracted suggestions by a South African forensic pathologist that the hanging death of a 25-year-old female guest at the Atlantis resort last year was likely a homicide staged to look like a suicide.

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Hotel room body - Was it suicide? Family’s expert raises questions over girl’s death

THE hanging death of a 25-year-old South African woman in a bathroom at the Atlantis resort last year may have been staged to look like a suicide, a South African forensic pathologist claimed yesterday.

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