With the witness to a murder admitting to being under the influence of drugs, the two men accused of a Malabar killing have applied to have the charges against them dropped.
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.
Claiming to have acted in self-defence when he stabbed his girlfriend, murder accused Luxolo Bandla was taken to task by a judge for evading questions under cross-examination as to how the woman he had been living with for more than three years ended up with a knife in her abdomen.
On the day e-hailer driver Garrison Snayers was shot dead, his alleged killer was nowhere near the scene and spent the day drinking and driving around Nelson Mandela Bay with friends.