Sentencing expected to continue in #Durbanbaby case
The case of the 'missing Durban baby' will continue in the Durban Regional Court tomorrow.
The matter had been set down for sentencing today with the baby's mother pleading guilty to charges of fraud and defeating the ends of justice in December.
The whole of Durban came to a standstill in March last year when the then one-month-old baby girl was allegedly taken during a hijacking.
The city-wide search for the little girl ended several days later when the mother was arrested for allegedly staging the hijacking and giving a false statement to police.
Her husband, and not the baby's biological father, took to the stand today as a defence witness.
"The matter was set down for sentencing in the Durban Regional Court. Sentencing proceedings did begin and the matter was rolled over until tomorrow for further evidence from the defence's witnesses," the NPA's Natasha Ramkissoon-Kara says.
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