Durban High Court: #SiamLee murder trail adjourned again
The murder trial of the Durban North resident has been postponed for a second time.
DAYS before slain Durban North resident, Siam Lee would have celebrated her 22nd birthday, her murder trial was, for the second time, postponed at the Durban High Court.
On Thursday morning the state called for the case to be provisionally adjourned until 16 May.
Advocate Reial Mahabeer, who is representing the man accused of murdering Lee, told the Northglen News that several witness statements were still outstanding.
The 30-year-old businessman faces a string of charges, including the kidnapping and murder of Lee, fraud, crimen injuria and the rape of another woman.
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He cannot be named as he has not pleaded for the separate rape case.
A small group of protesters, Kwanele, a movement of prostitute survivors, once again demonstrated outside the court, calling for justice for Lee.
It is alleged that Lee was working in the sex industry when she was brutally killed, and that the accused had been her last client on the day that she disappeared.
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Lee’s family and friends, however, maintain that she was only employed as a masseuse.
The state has alleged that the accused abducted Lee outside her place of employment on Margaret Maytom Avenue, Durban North on 4 January 2018, and kept her captive for two days before he killed her. He then dumped and burned her body in a sugarcane farm in New Handover.
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