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Middleman in Jayde Panayioutou murder to stand trial in Nov The Gqeberha school teacher was kidnapped and killed in 2015 and her husband Christopher Panayiotou was convicted of orchestrating her murder. FILE: Port Elizabeth teacher Jayde Panayiotou. Picture: Facebook
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CAPE TOWN - The self-confessed middleman in the Jayde Panayiotou murder is expected to stand trial later this year.
The Gqeberha school teacher was kidnapped and killed in 2015 and her husband Christopher Panayiotou was convicted of orchestrating her murder.
Two others have been jailed, while middleman Luthando Siyoni is accused of arranging a hitman.
He appeared in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Monday.
Trio in jail for other crimes also sentenced over grannyâs murder
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Cape Town - Six years since the murder of an Eastern Cape grandmother, the four people accused of the crime have been sentenced.
Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said in a statement that the accused were convicted and sentenced for murdering 78-year-old Denise Webber in her home in Needham Street in Kunene Park, Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth).
According to Naidu, on August 20, 2015, the 37-year-old domestic worker at the scene of the crime was overpowered by three men, one of whom she recognised. She was taken into the house and tied up.
Court hears of car chase and shootout after brazen cash heist PREMIUM By Devon Koen - 10 March 2021
Details of a high-speed car chase through the streets of Gqeberha after a brazen daylight cash-in-transit heist, which left one person dead and two injured, were spelt out in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Tuesday.
The court heard how a Fidelity Security cash vehicle was robbed at the Sasol garage in Linton Grange on May 2 2018.
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