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Arrest and subsequent detention details
'''Barend Hendrik "Wit Wolfe" Strydom''' (Born 1965) is a South African policeman, and right-wing mass murderer, convicted of killing 7 Blacks in a racially motivated killing spree in Pretoria in 1988.
'''Barend Hendrik "Wit Wolfe" Strydom''' (Born 1965) is a South African ex-policeman, and right-wing mass murderer, convicted of killing 7 Blacks in a racially motivated killing spree in Pretoria in 1988.
==Early life==
==Early life==
A group of policemen arrived and arrested Strydom shortly thereafter who proclaimed, "I am the King of the White Wolves".
A group of policemen arrived and arrested Strydom shortly thereafter who proclaimed, "I am the King of the White Wolves".
==Arrest and detention==
Strydom was immediately taken to a police station, where he was informed that his killing spree (in which he shot 24 people) had killed "five or six people" (the final death toll was 7). He replied, "I shot badly".
The officer in charge of the case, Lietenant Viljoen said of Strydom, "He felt nothing for the victims".
Whilst in police custody it emerged that Strydom was behind the so-called White Wolves, which had sent death threats to prominent South African liberals. The White Wolves (actually a mere figment of Strydom's imagination) claimed responsibility for the fire bombing of a left-wing Church (it later came to light that members of the Security Branch of the South African Police were responsible for the attack and that Strydom had merely taken 'credit' for it).
==Trial==
==Trial==