GUILTY South Africa - Jayde Panayiotou, 28, Port Elizabeth, 21 April 2015

[JudgeJudi]

Court has adjourned until tomorrow when the State will call further witnesses. The State’s crime scene expert, Bekker, will return next Monday for XX.

 

[PrimeSuspect]

This really takes the cake ... literally. It's CP's 30th birthday today and his family have brought a birthday cake into court. Nothing like having a celebration in the midst of a murder trial. This is truly disgusting.

What is it about SA? Nothing surprises me anymore.

 

[JudgeJudi]

Day 17, 3 November

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/live-day-17-panayiotou-murder-trial-continues-20161103

https://twitter.com/KathrynReporter

Sorry for the late start peeps. I have a bit of catching up to do.

Nothing surprises me either Prime. I'm surprised though that everyone in the courtroom didn't stand up, sing happy birthday and waited till he blew the candles out.

 

[JudgeJudi]

It's comforting to know they took DNA swabs. To this day I still wonder if swabs were taken of the coffee mugs on either side of OP's bed. Oh, wait, he would have said they changed sides later. Of course.

 

[JudgeJudi]

Day 18 – 4 November

https://twitter.com/KathrynReporter

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/live-panayiotou-murder-trial-day-18-20161104

 

[JudgeJudi]

Court adjourned until Monday. Well, it is SA and it is Friday. Since when do they ever have a full day in court on a Friday. No wonder so many people wait years for their day in court.

 

[JudgeJudi]

HeraldLIVE ‏@HeraldPE · 5h5 hours ago

A reminder: The #PanayiotouTrial resumes on Tuesday morning. The defence is consulting today.

 

[JudgeJudi]

Court is in session.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/live-panayiotou-trial-continues-after-admin-break-20161108

https://twitter.com/KathrynReporter

 

[PrimeSuspect]

Court is in session.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/live-panayiotou-trial-continues-after-admin-break-20161108

https://twitter.com/KathrynReporter

Peter Daubermann seemed pretty riled up with the State's evidence linking the ph number to Nenembe. LOL

Sizwezakhe Vumazonke died a couple of months ago and there are rumours he was poisoned in jail?! What kind of corruption goes on in SA?!

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/20...pect-believed-to-have-been-poisoned-in-prison

 

[JudgeJudi]

November 14

Court is in session.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...ues-with-siyoni-back-for-questioning-20161114

https://twitter.com/KathrynReporter

The middleman, Luthando Siyoni is in the box. Siyoni is a s.204 witness, and as such won't be charged with a criminal offence if he tells truth. His girlfriend, Breakfast, has already testified and has been charged with perjury as a result of contradicting many, in fact virtually all, facts contained within her two affidavits. To me it appears that Siyoni is doing the same. It has been pointed out to him a couple of times that he must tell the truth and that if he fails to do so, he will become another co-accused in the murder of Jayde. He obviously likes taking big risks.

 

[JudgeJudi]

This story just keeps getting stranger by the minute. Siyoni says he called CP about Sizwe Vumazonke, the triggerman but CP says he doesn't know anyone called Sizwe. In the next breath Siyoni says CP gives him a bag of money to give to Sizwe. Right.

 

[PrimeSuspect]

Digital forensic expert Wouter Pretorius has testified in the Jayde Panayiotou murder trial, about how he assisted police in securing evidence from the alleged middleman's Facebook page.

http://ewn.co.za/2016/11/24/digital-forensic-expert-takes-stand-in-jayde-panayiotou-murder-trial

 

[PrimeSuspect]

The State's witness in the Jayde Panayiotou murder trial refused to answer any of the prosecutor's questions in a dramatic start to proceedings on Monday.

"I have said I am not going to answer any questions of yours Mr Stander," nightclub bouncer Luthando Siyoni said.

Siyoni was arrested on April 27 last year after Jayde disappeared from outside her home in Kabega Park, Port Elizabeth, on April 21.
She was found dead the next day in a field in KwaNobuhle.
...
Like his girlfriend Babalwa Breakfast, Siyoni has also been declared a hostile witness by the court in the Panayiotou trial, after denying the contents of statements he made on May 3 and 23.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...swer-questions-in-jayde-murder-trial-20161121

 

[JudgeJudi]

The delays in this trial are excruciating. Due to the unavailability of both counsel, the following are the dates set down for hearing in 2017:

19 April – 5 May
12 June – 30 June

There have been a few more developments.

In early December, co-accused, Sibeko, applied for bail on the basis there was no evidence against him and accused the state of adapting its evidence as flaws in the case were exposed. However, the judge dismissed his application and said that he had shown no exceptional circumstances why he should be released on bail.

In an affidavit presented to court during Sibeko’s bail application, a surprise state witness, Khusta Vandala, detailed how he was allegedly asked to assist Sibeko to find a firearm for suspected hitman Vumazonke to shoot Jayde. Vandala said he couldn’t find a gun and pulled out before Jayde’s kidnapping and murder.

Marius Stander said he would rely on Vandala’s testimony, in conjunction with Sibeko’s cellphone billing and the tracking report of the alleged hit vehicle, to prove the charges against Sibeko. Sibeko claimed there was not a shred of evidence against him, accusing the state of adapting its evidence as flaws in the case were exposed.

Investigating officer Swanepoel said Sibeko denied all knowledge of a cellphone at the time of his arrest, but when the police phoned his number, the cellphone lit up in his grandmother’s pyjamas, where it was hidden. “The hiding of the cellphone and denying knowledge of the cellphone is indeed indicative that the applicant might interfere with evidence given the opportunity to do so,” Schoeman said. “These facts are common cause as they were not denied by the applicant in his replying affidavit.

The judge was of the view that if the state could prove the case as set out in Swanepoel’s affidavit, and confirmed by the affidavit of Vandala, then there would be a case against Sibeko.

 

[JudgeJudi]

Charges of perjury and defeating the ends of justice against Babalwa Breakfast, the girlfriend of the man who allegedly hired hitmen to kidnap and kill Jayde Panayiotou, have been provisionally withdrawn.

Breakfast was arrested in October last year, shortly after she was declared a hostile witness and excused from the stand. She was testifying in the murder trial of Christopher Panayiotou and his two co-accused, Sinethemba Nenembe and Zolani Sibeko.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...ou-witness-provisionally-withdrawn-20170217AA

The next portion of the trial resumes on Wednesday, 19 April.

Further background

[url]http://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20170218/283734134005647[/URL]

 

[JudgeJudi]

This link outlines the first 8 weeks of the trial.

http://www.heraldlive.co.za/panayiotou-trial/2016/12/03/sensational-panayiotou-murder-trial-court-heard/

Plus a bit more info:

http://www.heraldlive.co.za/news/top-news/2016/12/01/panayiotou-recordings-reveal-rift-dad/

 

[JudgeJudi]

This is how Jayde Panayiotou died

http://www.you.co.za/news/this-is-how-jayde-panayiotou-died/

 

[perfectingpink]

JudgeJudi, thank you for reminding me of this thread! I will work to get caught up this week.

 

[JudgeJudi]

A further recap of the first 8 weeks of the trial.

http://www.heraldlive.co.za/panayiotou/2017/04/18/panayiotou-murder-trial-resumes-high-court/

There will be live tweets from court.

Google images

 

[JudgeJudi]

JudgeJudi, thank you for reminding me of this thread! I will work to get caught up this week.

Hi perfectingpink,

The links on this page and posts on the previous page will bring you up-to-date.

See you later today.