All five of the men accused of the murders of University of the Fort Hare vice-chancellor's bodyguard Mboneli Vesele and fleet manager Petrus Roets, as well as a litany of other charges, are to remain locked up.
In an 11th hour move, two former University of Fort Hare employees, accused of being behind the killing of two university officials and attempted murder of the vice-chancellor, abandoned their bail bid.
A state prosecutor in one of the many criminal cases I have attended as a court reporter once said to me the one question he always asks himself after a case is if justice had been served.
The State has got the wrong people in the dock for the murders and attempted assassinations of University of Fort Hare staff members while the real killers are roaming free, the Dimbaza Magistrate's Court heard.