Little Ice Cream Boy

'The Street Was Quiet and Deserted ...A Few Yellow Leaves Fluttered to the Ground and a Brilliant Blue Sky Beckoned Through Skeletal Branches. It Was a Perfect Day for Murder.' From the Photograph She Keeps Beside Her Bed, Maria Goosen Will Always Remember Her Son As Her 'Little Ice Cream Boy', Smiling From the Frame on a Beach in Margate With a Cone in His Hand. Everyone Else Knows Gideon Goosen As a Monster a Gangster, Assassin and Murderer, Who Made a Pact With the Devil and Deserves to Live Out His Days in a Solitary Cell in Pretoria Central. How is It Possible That the Son of a Decorated, God-Fearing Security Policeman Could Fall so Low? His Mother Blames It on His Friends From the Other Side of the Railway Line in Randfontein, Others on a Leggy Prostitute From Nigel Who Became His Obsession. Gideon Himself Believes Everything Changed on an Autumn Morning When the Fatal Pellets From a Pump-Action Shotgun Cut Short the Life of an Anti-Apartheid Activist in the Driveway of His Home