South Africa: No Trial-Within-a-Trial for Bouncer in Panayiotou Case

10 November 2016

The issue of whether a bouncer accused of involvement in Jayde Panayiotou's murder was beaten into confessing and turning State witness would be heard as part of her alleged killers' main trial and not a trial-within-a-trial.

Prosecutor Marius Stander argued in the Eastern Cape High Court in Port Elizabeth on Thursday that there was no case law to show that the admissibility of a State witness should be heard in a trial-within-a-trial.

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