Closing arguments in the trial-within-a-trial to determine the admissibility of an alleged confession from one of the suspects accused of murdering two elderly women at a Sunridge Park retirement was put on hold on Friday when it emerged the judge was not available.
He was so evasive in his responses under cross-examination, that double murder accused Mkuseli Damaneti had to be warned by a judge to answer the questions put to him.
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.