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A fatal shot through the right cheek left Riaan Kohl dead as he sat in his BMW, metres away from the delivery truck he had escorted to a house in New Brighton.

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.

Lawyers for Jeffreys Bay man Donovan Wolf now want access to the police docket, which sets out the sequence of the murder investigation, and correspondence between the police and the office of the deputy director of public prosecutions.

While justice has prevailed for the family of murdered physiotherapist Marolien Schmidt, with her killer sentenced to life imprisonment, the trauma of a mother’s hysterical cries, the bloody murder scene and horrific morgue visit will forever be etched in their minds.

A rope, razor blades and face masks were allegedly found in the pockets of Clyde Stuurman after he was shot dead by a fellow Jeffreys Bay resident.

A fingerprint found at the scene where a man was shot dead in his bed was positively linked to alleged gang member Usisipho Zozi, the Gqeberha high court heard on Tuesday.

Five men dubbed “the crowbar gang” who allegedly terrorised residents of Nelson Mandela Bay over a seven-month period in 2019, appeared in the Gqeberha high court on Tuesday, where they face a string of charges.

The man who murdered popular Nelson Mandela Bay physiotherapist Marolien Schmidt has been sentenced to life behind bars.

Accused of actively participating in a criminal gang called the “Dora Boys”, a 26-year-old man allegedly went on a robbery and killing spree, leaving a trail of death in his wake.

Despite being advised on several occasions to leave her boyfriend or report his alleged abuse to the police, Ntomboloxo Mkhosana failed to do so.