The lawyer of the man alleged to have masterminded the deaths of botanists, Rodney and Rachel Saunders, had admitted he was at the Tongaat Hullett's sugarcane farms on the day the massive fires broke out, months before the elderly pair was murdered.
Italian-born alleged murderer and arsonist Aslam Del Vecchio, 41, has denied that he started several fires at a Tongaat Hulett farm in September 2017 in northern KwaZulu-Natal and caused damage amounting to R2.3 million.
A massive arson attack on multiple sugarcane farms in the north of Durban took centre stage at the trial of three people accused of the murder of elderly botanists Rodney and Rachel Saunders.