One of the five people accused of the brutal murder of two elderly residents at a Sunridge retirement village has lied to the law before and used an alias in a separate case prior to him allegedly confessing to the double murder.
A statement given to the police by one of five people accused of murdering two elderly women in their retirement village has been accepted as evidence despite the defence fighting tooth and nail for it to be chucked out.
A man accused of murdering two elderly women at a Sunridge Park retirement village claims to have been tortured by the police, who allegedly threatened to dump him in the sea should he not spill the beans on his co-accused.
A key cutter has unlocked the mystery as to how the alleged killers gained access to the St Johns retirement village, where two elderly women were murdered.
Walking stick in hand, an elderly resident of a retirement village had to be helped into the witness box of the high court in Gqeberha on Thursday but that did not stop her from testifying how she identified missing items from the room of her murdered friend and neighbour, Agnes Burns.