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Panayiotou murder trial date set

15 September 2016 - 13:18 By Kathryn Kimberley
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Christopher Panayiotou’s murder trial is ready to proceed on October 11 in the Port Elizabeth High Court.

Christopher Panayiotou is charged with having his wife, Jayde, killed.
Christopher Panayiotou is charged with having his wife, Jayde, killed.
Image: Eugene Coetzee/The Herald

Brief pre-trial proceedings on Thursday morning established that both the defence and state were ready to proceed.

Judge Dayalin Chetty will preside.

Panayiotou is accused of orchestrating the murder of his wife‚ Jayde‚ by hiring hitmen Sizwezakhe Vumazonke ‚ Sinethemba Nemembe and Zolani Sibeko to kidnap and kill her in April last year.

Vumazonke has since died after slipping into a coma. The cause of his death is not yet known.

– TMG Digital/The Herald

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