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Jordan accused to plead guilty
07/09/2005 12:17 - (SA)
Cape Town - One of the men charged with the murder of Cape Town baby girl Jordan Leigh Norton says he plans to plead guilty when the case goes to the Cape High Court.
Zanethemba Gwada, 18, made this startling revelation under cross-examination in his bail application in the Wynberg Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
He has been charged, along with two other men and a 16-year-old youth, with what the state alleges was the contract killing of the six-month-old infant on June 15 this year and with armed robbery.
A fifth accused, Dina Rodriguez, the alleged mastermind, has already been released on bail.
Questioned by prosecutor John Ryneveld, Gwada, who said he left school after passing Std Four, said he wasn't exactly aware of the charges against him.
"In other words you're applying for bail but you don't know why you are here in the first instance?" asked Ryneveld.
"I won't answer that question," Gwada replied.
Ryneveld explained he faced one charge of pre-meditated murder for which he faced life imprisonment and the armed robbery charge, and asked how he intended to plead.
"Guilty," said Gwada.
"On both counts?" asked Ryneveld.
"I won't answer that question," Gwada said.
His co-accused Mongezi Bobotyane and Sipho Mfazwe both declined to say what their plea would be when they were questioned earlier by Ryneveld during their formal applications for bail.
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