New Suspect Charged in Amy Biehl Slaying
Another black youth was charged with murder Friday and ordered to stand trial in the racially motivated killing of white American student Amy Biehl.
Ntombeko Ambrose Peni, 19, was arrested in Guguletu township near Cape Town and charged with participating in Biehl’s slaying. Bail was set at $285 and the trial was scheduled for Feb. 18.
“We have concrete evidence associating him with the actual murder,” said police spokesman Col. Raymond Dowd. Under South African law, he could not disclose further details.
Witnesses who appeared late in the trial of three other suspects named Peni as a principal figure in the killing.
Biehl, 26, of Newport Beach, Calif., was beaten and stabbed to death Aug. 25, 1993, when she attempted to drive black friends home to Guguletu. She had been educating South Africans on voting procedures ahead of April’s first all-race elections.
Three black youths who belonged to the militantly anti-white Pan Africanist Students’ Organization were convicted and sentenced in October to 18 years prison each for her murder.
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