The two brothers who slaughtered their nine-year-old brother with a view of using some of his body parts and blood to cure one of them are yet to undergo psychiatric evaluation.
During their previous appearance in the Tina Falls Periodical Court on September 20, the court had decided to send the suspects Mawethu Gwayi, 22, and his older brother Luvo, 26, for mental observation at the request of their Legal Aid lawyer who had argued that they came across as not mentally sound.
During their appearance at the same court today, it was expected that the court would be able to decide whether they were fit to stand trial in the case.
But instead state prosecutor Fezile Makunga asked magistrate Joyce Mboyana to postpone the case to November 29 to allow for them to go for mental observation.
"They were supposed to go for mental observation of which we have not yet seen to it," the prosecutor said.
The Legal Aid lawyer Nompucuko Mneno-Siqhola did not object to this and Mboyana granted a further postponement.
The Gwayi brothers were arrested after their little brother Buhle Gwayi was found with his throat slit following a frantic search by residents of Mdeni village which lasted three days.
The suspect had later given a chilling account in court of how they intended taking some of his body parts and blood to cure Luvo who is mentally ill.
No mental observation of murder suspects as yet
The two brothers who slaughtered their nine-year-old brother with a view of using some of his body parts and blood to cure one of them are yet to undergo psychiatric evaluation.
During their previous appearance in the Tina Falls Periodical Court on September 20, the court had decided to send the suspects Mawethu Gwayi, 22, and his older brother Luvo, 26, for mental observation at the request of their Legal Aid lawyer who had argued that they came across as not mentally sound.
During their appearance at the same court today, it was expected that the court would be able to decide whether they were fit to stand trial in the case.
But instead state prosecutor Fezile Makunga asked magistrate Joyce Mboyana to postpone the case to November 29 to allow for them to go for mental observation.
"They were supposed to go for mental observation of which we have not yet seen to it," the prosecutor said.
The Legal Aid lawyer Nompucuko Mneno-Siqhola did not object to this and Mboyana granted a further postponement.
The Gwayi brothers were arrested after their little brother Buhle Gwayi was found with his throat slit following a frantic search by residents of Mdeni village which lasted three days.
The suspect had later given a chilling account in court of how they intended taking some of his body parts and blood to cure Luvo who is mentally ill.
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