UPDATE: Julyan trial set for high court
The 33-year-old will appear at the Pietermaritzburg High Court next year.
The case of Wesley Julyan, who is accused of murdering four members of his family and setting the house containing their bodies alight on December 19, 2017, came up in the Turton Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday this week.
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The 33-year-old from Mtwalume was earlier this year sent to the Fort Napier hospital in Pietermaritzburg for a month of psychiatric observation.
It was heard in court that Julyan was fit to stand trial and the case was postponed to January 29, 2019 for trial in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
He has been in jail since his arrest in Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, on January 31.
He was visiting his father, a former South Coaster who had lived in the house where the murders took place, at the time of his arrest.
Convicted of murder back in 2003, Julyan was sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment in 2004.
He is accused of murdering his brother Jeffery Julyan (34), Jeffery’s son Ethan Julyan (9), Jeffery’s step-daughter Kayla McKenna (16) and Peter McKenna (73), Jeffery’s father-in-law, whose bodies were left in a blazing house in Mtwalume.
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