Sisters' abuse case postponed

* A sex abuse case relating to assaults which took place in the 1970s has been postponed in the Wynberg Regional Court to December. Claudine Shiels (60) and her 56-year-old sister Lisa van der Merwe, who said they were abused in the 1970s, were able to bring charges against their alleged abusers decades later because of a landmark Constitutional Court ruling that extended the statute of limitations on rape and abuse cases. Legal representatives for the defence submitted a doctor’s note stating that one of the accused could not attend proceedings.