Dina trial: Accused stay silent
15/08/2006 22:03  - (SA)  

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Cape Town - The defence teams in the baby Jordan Leigh Norton murder trial will close their case in Cape Town High Court on August 22 without calling the five accused to the witness stand.

Dina Rodrigues' defence counsel, John van der Berg, and the counsel of her four co-accused, Charles Simon, didn't explain their clients' decision not to take the witness stand.

The public had been waiting to hear Dina Rodrigues tell how she allegedly hired four men to kill the six-month-old baby.

The infant was stabbed in the neck at her grandparents' home in Lansdowne, Cape Town, on June 14 last year.

The alleged contract killers are Sipho Mfazwe, Mongezi Bobotyane, Zanethemba Gwada and a teenager who may not be named.

Both Simon and prosecutor Nicolette Bell told Judge Basheer Wagley that they needed time to prepare their written arguments.

They would file these the day before the case resumed.

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