Three of the seven people implicated in a string of hit murders for life insurance policies were granted bail in the Kariega magistrate’s court on Thursday.
The defence teams for seven suspects facing a string of charges related to alleged hit murders for life insurance payouts say the state’s case is weak and based on circumstantial evidence.
Ballistic evidence from a murder in Whittlesea and a bullet casing found in an Audi in Gqeberha in 2022 led to the unravelling of a network of life insurance policy fraud and hit murders in the Eastern Cape over the past two years.