Top prosecutor Marius Stander is set to handle the Vicki Terblanche murder case
The bail application of the two men accused of the murder of the 42-year-old Gqeberha mother was postponed again on Monday when it emerged that Stander would now be handling the matter.
Terblanche's body was found in a shallow grave on a plot at Greenbushes last month, just days after her boyfriend Reinhardt Leach reported her missing to police.
33-year-old Leach and his 20-year-old friend Dylan Cullis appeared briefly in the PE Magistrate's court on Monday and it was during these proceedings that the State asked that the matter be postponed to Wednesday as a provisional date for a bail application to be heard.
State prosecutor, Advocate Melani Hammond, told the court that prominent state prosecutor Marius Stander would now be heading up the case.
Advocate Stander was not available on Monday as he was busy in the city's High Court with the trial of self-confessed middle-man Luthando Siyoni, in the murder of Jayde Panayiotou.
Hammond told the court that Leach had handed in his passport to the State on Monday morning.
Hammond said Leach and Cullis each face a charge of murder and that she was in possession of a detailed charge sheet.
