It was seemingly a case of like father like son for Bathandwa Jabavu who received a sentence of life for both murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances.
On the day e-hailer driver Garrison Snayers was shot dead, his alleged killer was nowhere near the scene and spent the day drinking and driving around Nelson Mandela Bay with friends.
A headache and high blood pressure led to the postponement of Bathandwa Jabavu’s testimony in the trial of slain e-hailing driver Garrison Snayers in the Gqeberha high court on Tuesday.
In a blow to the state’s case, the hearsay evidence heard during the trial of a man accused of murdering e-hailing driver Garrison Snayers was struck from the record after the state failed to call the witness who had made the damning allegations.