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Isidingo fans face double the pain
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March 15, 2008
By Susan Comrie and Kashiefa Ajam
By Susan Comrie and Kashiefa Ajam
It was hard enough the first time round, but Ashley Callie's family, friends and her fans will have to do it all over again when her Isidingo character dies too.
Isidingo head writer Greig Coetzee said this week that viewers would see Callie's character Lee Haines for the last time at the end of the month.
"(Lee) will die tragically, but with dignity," said Coetzee, who did not elaborate on the storyline. He added that it was still too early to tell whether Callie's death had had an impact on viewer numbers.
Meanwhile, Johannesburg police say they are still investigating who or what may have been to blame for the car accident which claimed the soap star's life.
But her trial is already under way in cyberspace with victims of the accident trading electronic blows with Isidingo fans.
In the past two weeks several emails and internet posts have appeared which claim to be from the teenagers who were in the other car involved in the February accident.
One post from someone who calls themselves "victim" addresses Callie directly, accusing her of being drunk on the night of the accident:
"Because of you I cry myself to sleep every night," the post at Respectance.com reads.
"I pray that my best friend will come back to me and that she can overcome the brain damage you gave her and the pain that she is in.
"You didn't deserve to die because you should be here to see the effects of your drunk driving.
"I wish you could see me try and walk with all the metal in my leg. I wish you could see my scars. I wish you were there when I underwent all my blood transfusions
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"I'm sorry you died but I find it hard to forgive you for the pain you have caused."
Isidingo viewers and Callie's co-workers have reacted with shock to the post.
"Those are sick people," said Isidingo spokesman Nyagunda Chauke.
"The family is exhausted at the moment and the case is still under investigation.
"It's a waste of time for the family to even worry about it."
Until recently police had speculated that Callie had caused the accident, but last week an ex-SAPS officer came forward claiming that he had witnessed the accident and that a third car had gone through a red light, causing Callie to swerve into the wrong lane.
But friends of the other victims remain convinced that Callie was to blame.
Through posts on a local blog, libby.iblog.co.za, they have claimed that eyewitnesses saw Callie drinking at a party prior to the accident.
"First of all, it should be known that eyewitnesses at the event Ashley Callie attended prior to the accident testify to the fact that she was drinking and that she had had a sufficient amount of alcohol," reads one post by "Pain".
"It should also be known that she refused the service provided to drive people who were too inebriated to do so.
"Also, a paramedic on the scene who... also worked with Callie, claimed that she reeked of alcohol.
"Ashley Callie gets a lot of sympathy and sadness because she died but no one stops to remember the young kids who are now suffering day in and day out because of what she did."
  
 
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