Murder accused Johnny Baartman appeared in the Gqeberha magistrate’s court on Thursday via a closed circuit television link-up and the case was postponed for further investigation.
While a Gqeberha man accused of murdering his former wife has been sent to Fort England Psychiatric Hospital for mental observation, another man accused of murdering his mother must still wait eight months for a bed to become available.
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It will be at least another month before alleged wife killer Johnny Baartman appears before court after his case was postponed for him to obtain a date to be booked in at Fort England Psychiatric Hospital in Makhanda.
Johnny Baartman, a former high school teacher from Gqeberha accused of murdering his ex-wife, admitted to a district surgeon that he killed her “[on] the spur of the moment after she allegedly provoked him,” the Gqeberha Magistrate’s Court heard on Tuesday.