Judgement in sex worker's murder case continues
Durban High Court Judge Thoba Poyo-Dlwati continues handing down the judgement in the trial of five people accused of the murder of Desiree Murugan today.
Municipal workers found the Shallcross woman's decapitated body at the Shallcross Sports Ground three years ago.
Yesterday, Poyo-Dlwati recounted evidence resented by the accused and witnesses during the trial.
All five accused sat stone-faced as Poyo-Dlwati scrutinised their evidence and versions of event - saying many aspects of their testimony are contradictory.
The accused include three 18-year-olds, traditional healer Sibonakaliso Mbili and his 32-year-old assistant Vusumuzi Gumede.
Falakhe Khumalo has turned state witness but he has already been convicted of murder and was handed a life sentence in 2014.
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In her evidence, one of the accused teenagers told the court that she wasn't present when Murugan was murdered.
She says Khumalo and the other two teenage accused came to her house later - with the sex worker's head.
The teenager says Khumalo told her to wash Murugan's head in a bucket, threatening to also behead her and her child if she didn't do as instructed.
But in his testimony, Khumalo denied this - telling the court that he had in fact instructed another Section 204 witness to wash the head.