Tragic truth revealed for Greenwood Park mom
Since Dylan's disappearance, several organisations joined the search for him, but it was a former police officer who unravelled the facts.
AFTER two years of searching for her son, a Greenwood Park mother received the devastating news that he had died on the weekend he went missing.
Lindray Sibilant’s son, Dylan Fisher (19) went missing a few days after his birthday in 2019 on July 25 after he left home for a celebration with friends.
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Last week police notified Sibilant that her son had died on July 27, 2019 in a car accident on the KwaMashu Highway.
As police explained the details to Sibilant, she learnt that the driver of the car also lived in Greenwood Park and was known to the family.
“My world came tumbling down. I didn’t know what to process first – that my child had died or that the person who knew about his death had kept this away from us for two years, knowing full well that we were still searching for Dylan,” said Sibilant.
As if that was not a lot to process, Sibilant then heard that Dylan had already been buried as nobody had come to claim him.
“He was given a pauper’s funeral. It hurts so much because Dylan’s family loves him and we would have given him a proper send off,” she said.
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Sibilant said at first the driver of the vehicle had denied in front of police, at a meeting with her family and his, that he had ever known Dylan.
A few days later, he admitted to knowing Dylan and that he had died. SAPS officials told Sibilant that Dylan sustained multiple injuries in the car crash and was ejected from the vehicle.
“We don’t know who to believe any more but my family and I want Dylan’s body exhumed so we can give him a proper funeral. We also want want answers from the police and investigating officers at Greenwood Park police station because they treated my son’s missing person’s case as if it was nothing. After the accident, why didn’t they [police] check on their missing persons data base to see that it was Dylan?”
Since Dylan’s disappearance, several organisations joined the search for him, but it was a former police officer who unravelled the facts. The officer attended the same church as Sibilant.
“The woman approached my pastor and said she would like to help find my son. She then called her contacts at KwaMashu SAPS and found out that Dylan had died. It took her three weeks to complete her investigation,” said Sibilant.
“It’s frustrating that the police didn’t do their work properly,” she added.
The family is looking for an attorney or legal advisor that could could assist them with advise them on what steps to take to have Dylan’s body exhumed.
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