Sizzlers massacre

Sizzlers massacre
Sea Point Sea Point (South Africa)
Location	7 Graham Street, Sea Point, Cape Town [1] [2]
Coordinates	33°54′51″S18°23′23″E / 33.9141°S 18.3898°E / -33.9141; 18.3898
Date	20 January 2003
Weapons	Guns, knives
Deaths	9
Injured	1
Victims	Warren Visser Aubrey Otgaar Sergio de Castro Stephanus Fouche Johan Meyer Gregory Berghau Travis Reade Timothy Boyd Marius Meyer [1]
Perpetrators	Adam Roy Woest Trevor Basil Theys [1] [3]

The Sizzlers massacre took place in Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa, on 20 January 2003. Nine people were murdered and one person was severely injured in a hate crime against the queer community. ^{[4] [5]}

The victims were shot and killed at a gay massage parlour named Sizzlers at 7 Graham Road. Adam Roy Woest and Trevor Basil Theys were convicted for the crime. ^{[1] [3]} Woest stated that the initial reason for targeting the massage parlour was to rob it and steal money that Woest and Theys believed was held onsite. ^[3] Judge Nathan Erasmus described it as the "worst massacre that Cape Town and the country has ever seen." ^[4]

Woest and Theys were both found guilty of 9 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, and sentenced to life in prison. ^[6]

See also

• List of massacres in South Africa

References

1. "Petition against Sizzlers' killer's release on parole reaches close to 7000". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
2. "Gay Massacre | Journeyman Pictures". www.journeyman.tv. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
3. "Theys's Sizzlers confession". News24. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
4. Barnes, Clayton (19 January 2008). "Sizzlers massacre remains a mystery". Independent Online . Retrieved 7 June 2019.
5. "2003: Nigel Pierce remembers the Sizzlers massacre in Sea Point". CapeTalk. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
6. Staff Reporter (16 March 2004). "Sizzlers killers get life". The Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2023.