By Celeste Ganga02 January 2008
A shortage of funds on Monday setback the trial of an American man, facing five charges of credit card fraud in the Cape Town Magistrates court, to a week.
Prosecutor in the case, Harold Engelbrecht has alleged that Jonathan Duncan (the accused) attempted to cheat the Camps Bay police into refunding him R800, when he was only entitled to the R300 seized from him during his arrest in October 2007.
Duncan’s trial was to have started on Monday, before Ingrid Freitag, but he requested a postponement to 7 January 2008 to raise the legal fees required by privately funded attorney, Tilly Terblanche.
Terblanche told the court that there were also complications with Duncan’s visa, which had for the moment expired.
At an appearance last Friday, Duncan requested for an urgent finalisation of his case, as the three weeks he had spent in custody had been unpleasant.
He also said that his mother was sick and that he needed to be released so that he could raise money for bail.
Nonetheless, Freitag reminded him that he had been out on bail, but that it was revoked after he was caught on a plane trying to leave the country.
She added that he would not be released on bail again.
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