Hillary Gardee murder accused change their minds and apply for bail
Hillary Gardee murder accused Sipho Mkhatshwa is expected to continue with his bail application on Thursday at the Nelspruit magistrate’s court.
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Hillary Gardee murder accused Sipho Mkhatshwa is expected to continue with his bail application on Thursday at the Nelspruit magistrate’s court.
As Hillary Gardee murder-accused Sipho Mkhatshwa testified in his bail hearing his fiancée, Zandile Magagula, expressed her anger over an SMS allegedly sent by a sangoma to police that is believed to have led to his arrest.
The state is expected to prove to the court on Friday that murder accused Sipho Mkhatshwa is lying about not being in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, when Hillary Gardee was kidnapped and killed.
Sipho Mkhatshwa, in his bail bid, says he was nowhere near Hillary Gardee when she was kidnapped and murdered.
One of the three men accused of raping and killing Hillary Gardee, the daughter of former EFF secretary-general Godrich Gardee, claims police tortured him so that he would implicate his co-accused in the crimes.