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.
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.
Almost 2½ years after being arrested for the murder of e-hailing taxi driver Garrison Snayers, Bathandwa Jabavu is expected to plead to several charges against him.
Any property or assets once owned by convicted perlemoen kingpin Morne Blignault will go under the hammer after the Gqeberha high court granted an order to allow the auctioning off of the ill-gotten gains.