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Legal bigwigs senior state advocate Marius Stander and defence attorney Peter Daubermann butted heads in the Gqeberha high court on Friday after murder accused businessman Arnold Terblanche brought an application to appeal against a previous court judgment denying him bail.

While the state has wound up its probe into the murder of Vicki Terblanche, her estranged husband, Arnold, continues his quest for freedom and has now approached the Makhanda High Court with an application for leave to appeal against the decision by the magistrate’s court to deny him bail, twice.

A magistrate and the Oxford English dictionary dashed murder accused businessman Arnold Terblanche’s hopes of being released on bail when the meaning of “new fact” was painstakingly explained to him on Monday.

It has become a question of who knows the law best in the bail application of alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche as the defence and state continued to argue the matter in the magistrate's court in Gqeberha.

A stickler for detail, senior state advocate Marius Stander pulled no punches on Tuesday when he asked the Gqeberha magistrate’s court to disregard at least 72 points listed in alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche’s affidavit in his bail application based on new facts.

A desperate attempt at taking a second bite of the cherry — this is how alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche’s latest bail attempt was described by state advocate Marius Stander on Tuesday.

Taking a swipe at the prosecution and the police, defence attorney Alwyn Griebenow claimed the state misled the court on what evidence it had during alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche’s first bid for bail. As proceedings in Terblanche’s third bail application continued on Wednesday, Griebenow argued that some evidence had been made available to the defence only after his client’s first application was dismissed, and this alone should be viewed as new facts.

As alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche appeared in court for his third bid for freedom on Tuesday, the state indicated that it would oppose the application for bail based on new facts, because it did not believe new facts existed.

Alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche appeared briefly in the Gqeberha magistrate’s court on Tuesday, with the state indicating that it would oppose his formal bail application based on new facts.

As alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche brought an application for bail based on new facts to the Gqeberha magistrate’s court on Thursday, the state argued that his arguments were merely an expansion of evidence led during his initial bail bid.