JJ Peters to spend another Christmas behind bars
JJ Peters’s case was recently postponed for his defence to finalise the paperwork for his plea. The trial is expected to start early next year.
JJ Peters, who is on trial for the murder of his grandmother in 2022, is to spend another Christmas behind bars.
He abandoned his official bail application during his third district court appearance on March 16, 2022, after he had been in court for it twice.
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Peters made another brief appearance in the Nelspruit Regional Court on December 4, and the matter was postponed to December 11 for a possible plea.
According to the provincial spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority, Monica Nyuswa, Peters’s defence is finalising the paperwork for his plea so that his trial can start. She said if the matter goes according to plan, the long-awaited trial will start early next year.
Peters had already been in custody for almost 22 months after he was arrested.
