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Baby-killer accused 'confessed'
01/09/2005 14:18 - (SA)
Cape Town - One of the men accused of killing Cape Town baby girl Jordan Norton has made what the state claims is a confession, a Wynberg magistrate heard on Thursday.
This was during a bail application by Sipho Mfazwe, 33, who is charged, along with two other men, a juvenile and Dina Rodrigues, with six-month-old Jordan Norton's murder in June this year.
Asked by his advocate, Charles Simon, whether he wanted to answer any questions about a document "which the state calls a confession", Mfazwe said he did not.
"I will answer when its the trial. I will answer when we testify... during the trial."
He said he was a taxi driver earning about R500 a week and would be unable to pay bail as high as the R20 000 granted earlier to Rodrigues.
"Money that I can pay your worship, its plus-minus R1000," Mfazwe, speaking through a Xhosa interpreter, told magistrate Carmen Wyngaard.
The other two men, Mongezi Bobakyane, 22, and Zanethemloa Gwada, 18, are also going to apply for bail.
The juvenile is not in court and will not be seeking bail, as he was given a five year sentence last week for an unrelated armed robbery.
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