Alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche appeared briefly in the Gqeberha magistrate’s court on Tuesday, with the state indicating that it would oppose his formal bail application based on new facts.
In a notice of intention to oppose the bail bid, signed by state advocate Marius Stander, it was indicated that the prosecution did not believe the facts presented by Terblanche in April were in fact new.
The matter was postponed to May 10 to allow Stander time to submit an affidavit before argument.
Terblanche brought the application for bail based on new facts after the Gqeberha high court dismissed his appeal against the lower court’s decision not to grant him bail.
It is the third time Terblanche, who was arrested in November and charged with the murder of his estranged wife, Vicki, is trying his hand at bail.
He, Vicki's boyfriend, Reinhardt Leach, and friend Dylan Cullis, face charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and defeating the ends of justice.
Both Leach and Cullis abandoned their bail applications shortly after their arrests.
Vicki was reported missing by Leach on October 21.
It is alleged she was killed on October 18 at her Mill Park home after she was first drugged with Percocet, a Schedule 6 opioid, and then suffocated with a pillow and possibly even strangled.
Her body was discovered in a shallow grave on a plot in Greenbushes after Cullis led police to the scene
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