The public and children’s rights advocates have challenged Tiffany Meek’s account of events, despite the Meek family’s request that the public give the Dunn and Meek families time to consider her potential role in her son Jayden-Lee Meek’s murder.

Police believe the child was killed inside their home, with attempts made by the 31-year-old mother to cover up the murder in a desperate attempt to thwart the ends of justice by accusing and deflecting attention from her involvement.

Meek claimed that she is being set up for the murder when she appeared in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court, and her bail application was postponed to Monday, July 21, so an underage witness could testify.

As a result, she pleaded not guilty to the murder of her son as she denied all the allegations levelled against her.

She said the blood stains found on Jayden-Lee’s books, found in her flat, were not there in the first place.

Novan Naidoo, her legal representative, reading through her affidavit, indicated that his client is not a flight risk, and had she wanted to flee Gauteng, she would have done so long before her arrest last Friday.

“I’m an adult female. Before my arrest, I was residing in Roodepoort with my mother since the passing of my son. It is my wish to apply for my immediate release on bail as I am innocent of all four charges against me. I am still processing how I have been accused of killing my child, when I was the one who filed a missing person’s report and went to report the matter to the Florida police station.

“I plead not guilty and deny any wrongdoing stated in the charge sheet… I am the one who called the driver to ascertain the delivery of my son and panickedly looked for him everywhere until I was directed to where we found him on the stairs. And when we arrived in the hospital, he was pronounced dead on arrival,” she stated.

The proceedings were subsequently postponed to Monday after the State indicated that it was not ready to proceed. 

However, reacting to Meek’s affidavit, City of Johannesburg Speaker, Margaret Arnolds, said she does not agree with the contradictory statement of the accused, saying the accused has a case to answer to, as most of her evidence is contradictory and repetitive.

“We have accused the police of not doing their jobs, and did not wait until they were done. But, I also think that the accused’s legal representative is traumatising us because there are a lot of things that are not truthful in her statement. Half of what she is saying in her affidavit is not truthful.

“She speaks about the 16th, when we know that the child went missing on the 13th, which was a Wednesday. I visited the family, the grandmother at that stage told us there was incriminating stuff from the flats. I think the affidavit is very contradictory. How do you say you want bail but then tell us you want to go to Durban?” she asked.

Owen Meek, Jayden-Lee’s uncle, speaking on behalf of both families, called for the public to allow the law to take its course.

“We urge the public to exercise restraint. Both families are still processing the death of the child. We are relieved that the State has remanded her in custody for now, as we do not know what could happen to her should she be given bail. We also say to those who have been insulting the Dunn family to refrain from such, as they too are still mourning.”

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