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Sex workers killer Sifiso Mkhwanazi will be sent for risk assessment

"The state has not proven beyond reasonable doubt that the murders were premeditated."

"Nothing shows the murders were planned."

The Johannesburg high court, sitting in Palm Ridge, on Wednesday refused Sifiso Mkhwanazi’s application to have the bulk of the charges against him discharged.

Alleged sex worker killer Sifiso Mkhwanazi has been found not guilty on one of the seven counts of rape against him.

The investigating officer in the case of six slain Johannesburg sex workers gave chilling testimony on the police's theories on the murders.

Only three of six sex worker bodies have been identified in the trial of then 21-year-old Sifiso Mkhwanazi, who allegedly confessed to killing the six women.

The woman who opened the rape case against Sifiso Mkhwnanazi which allegedly triggered him to kill sex workers could not be traced when police started their investigation after the discovery of six bodies.

The Johannesburg high court sitting in Palm Ridge on Tuesday heard about the sex trade when a sex worker returned to the stand to testify in the trial of Sifiso Mkhwanazi, who is accused of killing six sex workers in 2022.

He said Mbonambi told him to confess.