{"id":78165,"date":"2018-02-06T15:31:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=78165"},"modified":"2018-02-14T14:07:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T12:07:01","slug":"coffin-duo-receive-outcome-petition-supreme-court-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/02\/06\/coffin-duo-receive-outcome-petition-supreme-court-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffin duo receive outcome of petition at Supreme Court of Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just learned that the petition has been successful, meaning that the case will be brought before the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. A date has not been set.<\/p>\n<p>It is claimed that the state did not oppose the petition before the cutoff date.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Sheila Mphahlele refused the duo leave to appeal after she found them guilty of attempted murder, kidnapping, assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm and intimidation for\u00a0pushing Victor Mlotshwa into a coffin.<\/p>\n<p>Oosthuyzen was sentenced to an effective 11 years and Jackson to 14 years in jail in October last year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-78168\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2018\/02\/appelhof-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2018\/02\/appelhof-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2018\/02\/appelhof-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In January, Oosthuyzen and Jackson\u2019s legal representative, Marius Coertze, brought an application for leave to appeal the refusal of bail, before Judge Mphahlele in the Middelburg High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Coertze argued that a recent court finding in Gauteng, found that bail should be considered when there is no danger to the administration of justice and little chance of absconding.<\/p>\n<p>The application was denied.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that a petition for leave to appeal the ruling has also been filed with the Supreme Court of Appeal. The outcome thereof is still unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coffin case duo, Willem Oosthuyzen and Theo Jackson, have received the outcome of their petition for leave to appeal from Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":78169,"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":[7,2],"tags":[8544,5875,8879,10350,21966,10353,10352,5960,10351,5998],"class_list":["post-78165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-bloemfontein","tag-coffin-case","tag-coffin-duo","tag-marius-coertze","tag-middelburg","tag-petition","tag-supreme-court-of-appeal","tag-theo-jackson","tag-willem-oosthuisen","tag-willem-oosthuyzen"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["bloemfontein","coffin case","coffin duo","marius coertze","middelburg","petition","supreme court of appeal","theo jackson","willem oosthuisen","Willem Oosthuyzen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78165","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=78165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}