{"id":69437,"date":"2017-07-17T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=69437"},"modified":"2017-07-18T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T07:17:10","slug":"bail-judgement-marchlands-murder-suspects-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/07\/17\/bail-judgement-marchlands-murder-suspects-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Bail judgement for Marchlands murder suspects tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nkosinathi and William Yika together with Lucas Makua <\/a>were arrested in connection with the Marchlands farm attack wherein Sue Howarth and her husband Robert Lynn were attacked on their farmstead in February.<\/p>\n

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Nkosinati Yika, Lucas Makua and William Yika.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Robert was tortured with a blow-torch and the couple were dumped in a mountainous area between Belfast and Stoffberg, an estimated\u00a050 km from their house, where they were later discovered by a passersby.<\/p>\n

Sue succumbed to her wounds<\/a> whilst Robert was treated in hospital and later discharged. He still has a bullet lodged in his neck that doctors deem to dangerous to remove.<\/p>\n

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Sue Howarth in hospital hours before she was declared dead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The three accused initially abandoned their bail application in the Belfast Magistrate Court but recently brought an application in Machadodorp Magistrate Court.<\/p>\n

Since the initial breakthrough when five suspects were arrested of which three were eventually charged, the investigation was dealt a massive blow when the docket was destroyed in a fire<\/a> at the Dullstroom Detective unit. In the process of recompiling the docket, it came to light that signed confessions by two of the three suspects were destroyed.<\/p>\n

It was also revealed that key witnesses, like the men who discovered the Marchlands couple next to the road, have never been interviewed.<\/a><\/p>\n

Friends of Robert Lynn, who say that he might be the only credible piece of evidence left, fear for his safety, should the suspects be granted bail.<\/p>\n

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Protesters gathered in front of the Belfast Magistrate Court during the Marchland murder suspects’ first court appearance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They have requested concerned members of the community to join them in protesting in front of the Dullstroom Magistrate Court, where bail judgement will be given on Tuesday 18 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A close friend to the late Sue Howarth, has described the possibility of the men accused for her friend\u2019s murder being released on bail, as \u201cpetrifying\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":69439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[1453,1186,7204,6345,7205,6394,6355,7206,6399,6415],"class_list":["post-69437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-belfast","tag-belfastdullstroom","tag-brit-expat-murdered","tag-dullstroom","tag-dullstroom-fire","tag-dullstroom-murder","tag-farm-attack","tag-murder-suspects","tag-robert-lynn","tag-sue-howarth"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["Belfast","Belfast\/Dullstroom","brit expat murdered","Dullstroom","dullstroom fire","dullstroom murder","farm attack","murder suspects","robert lynn","sue howarth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69437","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}