Pieter van der Westhuizen – who shot and killed two robbers at the Querencia Ministries church in Wierda Park, Centurion, on Sunday – protected not only himself, but the entire congregation, his lawyer said.
Lawyer Ulrich Roux of Ulrich Roux & Associates told News24 that Van der Westhuizen – a retired police officer and brother of late Springbok scrum half Joost van der Westhuizen – was still shaken following the incident.