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An inmate who claims that one of the youths allegedly raped by Knysna businessman Adrian Wilson-Forbes was frequently seen "walking with young girls" took the stand in the Thembelethu Magistrates Court outside George on Wednesday.
Wilson-Forbes, 60, this week testified that this boy, now 22 years old but who claims he was raped when he was 11, had "extorted" him by forcing him to pose with a naked eight-year-old girl for a series of incriminating pornographic photographs at Herolds Bay on March 29 last year.
The Knysna businessman is facing 79 charges ranging from rape, statutory rape, indecent assault, abduction, trafficking for sexual purposes and child pornography for crimes .
The inmate, Jeffrey Botha, is currently awaiting sentence and is being detained in the George correctional facility where Wilson-Forbes is currently remanded in custody.
Botha told the court that he had volunteered the information because he had often seen the boy "walking with very young girls" in the George area and felt it might be important to the case.
However Botha's testimony was brought into question by the state, as Wilson-Forbes himself had testified on Tuesday that he had never met Botha or spoken to him about the case.
Earlier this week Wilson-Forbes told the court that after first meeting the boy "five or six years ago", he had soon begun using prostitures "in their twenties" who had been organised by the boy. These meetings for oral sex had taken place at Victoria Bay outside George.
However in March last year the boy again made contact with him after several years' of no communication to warn him that "a girl" was accusing him of rape.
Wilson-Forbes claimed the boy said he could help him to make his "problem" go away, but that on March 29 the extortion had taken place.
He claimed the boy held him and the eight-year-old girl at knife point and demanded Wilson-Forbes drive to Harolds Bay where he used the businessman's camera to take incriminating photographs of them together.
He said the boy had then demanded R50 000, later negotiated down to R3000, to return the camera's memory card. Asked why he never reported the crime to police, Wilson-Forbes has repeatedly claimed he was too "dazed and confused".
Closing arguments are expected to be heard on Thursday.
