{"id":37605,"date":"2015-11-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/37605\/bail-granted-to-acid-attacker\/"},"modified":"2015-11-23T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T08:08:36","slug":"bail-granted-to-acid-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/20\/bail-granted-to-acid-attacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Bail granted to \u2018acid attacker\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Euphemia Sethema (34) allegedly threw Sesy Linah Skosana (27) with acid in her face during an argument at their lovers house in July this year.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, who is still recovering in hospital, is scared for life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey let Euphemia out so she can go finish off my daughter,\u201d yelled the victim\u2019s mother in court.<\/p>\n<p>The court learned that the man in the centre of the drama is a witness.<\/p>\n<p>The trail was postponed to the 9th of March 2016 due the victim\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-37605 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/20\/bail-granted-to-acid-attacker\/attachment\/img-20150806-wa000__62630\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/11\/IMG-20150806-WA000__62630-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-37607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/11\/IMG-20150806-WA000__62630-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/11\/IMG-20150806-WA000__62630-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/11\/IMG-20150806-WA000__62630.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-37607'>\n\t\t\t\tSesy Linah Skosana is still in a critical condition in hospital, her family fears the suspect might want to go and finish her off.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/32530\/acid-attacker-in-custody\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warning Graphic Content &#8211; Acid attacker in custody<\/a><\/p>\n<article id=\"post\" class=\"post-30951 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news-general content-print\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Send a message to our SMS line 37 940 or add us onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video\u2019s<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drama unfolded at the Middelburg Magistrate court on Thursday morning when a victim\u2019s family learned that an alleged acid attacker was granted R1000 bail days before the trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":37606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}