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The State is not ready to proceed with the murder trial of a man and a woman who are accused of killing a Crime Intelligence officer.
Prosecutor Tumi Maunye told Magistrate Maggie van der Merwe in the Lenasia Magistrate s Court that critical aspects were outstanding. These include a ballistics report, a post mortem report and DNA results.
The Director of Public Prosecutions has not yet decided which court will hear the trial.
The accused, Byron Carlton, 32, and Alliyah Nicole Davids, 20, will remain in custody until the case is finalised.
Davids abandoned her bail application and Carlton was unsuccessful in his bail application.
In a horrific development, a 12-year-old girl was sjamboked to death by her angry parents, following rumours that she had been seen kissing a boy in the streets. The shocking incident occured in South Africa on Tuesday.
According to the Sowetan, Nthaisi Bembe, 12, was out with her friends when the angry parents summoned her back home to Lehae, south of Johannesburg.
When she got home, her mother Miriam Bembe, 35, and her live-in lover Raymond Sekgapane, 42, informed her that they had learned on good authority that she had been âseen kissing a boy in the street.â
The angry parents are alleged to have sjamboked Nthaisi mercilessly for 30 minutes. After the brutal beating, Nthaisi dragged herself to the bathroom to clean off the blood that she was now covered in. Unfortunately, she collapsed and died in there.