Case against Cleo Diko's killer postponed

The case against the man who confessed to killing 34-year-old Cleo Diko from Mandalay, has been postponed.

PHOTO; Cleo Diko

Judgement and sentencing was expected for Sandile Jegwa, on Monday, as he pleaded guilty in the Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s Court, two weeks ago, where he described how he murdered the mother of three.

Diko went missing in October 2022. Her decomposed body was found three months later on 27 January 2023 in Mandalay in Cape Town. There was a rope around her neck and her body was hidden under a bed, covered with cement and tiles. Her identity had to be confirmed through DNA testing. Her killer, Sandile Jegwa, was arrested near a railway, where he was living.

Civil rights group, Action Society, who is following the case, expressed its disappointment regarding the postponement

“The Mitchells Plain Magistrates court was packed to the rafters with friends and loved ones of Cleo, expecting the magistrate to deliver a judgement, but they were only met with yet another postponement,” said Kaylynn Palm, Head of Action Society's Action Centre in the Western Cape.

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The case has been postponed to 27 March 2024.

 

Done By: Mitchum George