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Magistrate Syta Prinsloo said she believed the student accused of the teacher's murder and rape didn't flee the province because he thought all evidence linking him to the crime had been destroyed.
The 21-year-old student was arrested last month and charged with the murder of the Johannesburg teacher who was raped and murdered after an organised run in Sandton in October.
Bafana Mahungela, charged with the murder of Sandton schoolteacher Kirsten Kluyts, was denied bail by the Alexandra regional court on Friday after he spent Christmas behind bars.
The defence lawyer of Kirsten Kluyts' alleged murderer has argued the case presented by the state is farfetched.
In his sexual assault trial, child sex abuse ring kingpin Gerhard Ackerman wants the presiding magistrate to recuse herself for what he claims is bias.