The murder trial against Thabo Stanley Leshabane, accused of hiring hitmen to kill his wife last year, has been postponed to allow the accused to secure a new legal representative.
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The case against a man alleged to have hired hitmen to kill his wife and her friend is yet to be finalised.
The State told the Polokwane Magistrate s Court it would need more time, but defence lawyers argued that the accused were serving a sentence in custody.
Stanley Leshabane and his co-accused were denied bail and have been in custody since the end of last year.
The case against a Limpopo man accused of ordering a hit on his wife and her friend has yet to be finalised, with defence lawyers arguing against further postponements because the accused has been in custody for a while.
From right: Thabo Leshabane, Mbekezi Butheledzi, John Zulu, Sfiso Bhekinhlezo, and Emanuel Dlamini. Photo by Joshua Sebola
Analysis of cellphone and itemised billing data places suspected hit men in the same motor vehicle that was seen at the murder scene of two people.
Makoena Mabusela-Leshabane and her colleague, Tebogo Mphuti, were killed after viewing a business property in Polokwane.
The scene was captured on CCTV footage which showed the faces of some of the alleged hit men.
Four suspected hit men allegedly hired by a man accused of ordering a hit on his wife and her colleague has been linked to the crime scene, the Polokwane Magistrate s Court heard on Tuesday.
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Picture: iStock. Mokgotho insisted that the reason Kotze did not testify was because the State had indicated then that ‘it has nothing’ against Thabo Stanley Leshabane, accused of ordering the hit.
The bail hearing of a man accused of ordering a hit on his businesswoman wife and her colleague had to be postponed following a fierce disagreement between the State and a defence lawyer in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court late on Wednesday.
The disagreement arose when defence lawyer John Mokgotho asked investigating officer Warrant Officer Gerhardus Kotze why he had not taken the witness stand on 18 November.