Arguments continued in the Magistrates Court in Gqeberha on Thursday where murder accused Arnold Terblanche is fighting his third attempt at bail.
His defence attorney Peter Daubermann claimed on Wednesday that there was no evidence linking his client to the death of his estranged wife Vicki in October last year.
He further told Magistrate Kriban Pillay that Arnold was not another Christopher Panayiotou.
Former Gqeberha businessman Panayiotou was also accused of having orchestrated his wife, Jayde’s murder in April 2015 and was found guilty in November 2017.
He is serving a life sentence.
Sitting in the dock and making notes, Terblanche looked back to the gallery where his devoted girlfriend Krystal Wiggill was seated and both of them nodded in agreement.
Daubermann implored magistrate Pillay not to draw any inference between the Panayotiou and Terblanche cases, saying in the Panayotiou matter there was incriminating evidence in which he implicated himself in a recorded conversation.
He maintains there’s no tangible evidence that the state has brought forward that can be accepted by the court.
State Prosecutor Marius Stander, Investigating Officer Kanna Swanepoel, Daubermann himself and Terblanche's other defence attorney Alwyn Griebenow were all involved in the Panayiotou murder trial.
Terblanche’s estranged wife Vicky’s body was found in a shallow grave in Greenbushes in October last year.
Two other men, Reinhardt Leach and Dyllan Cullis are his co-accused.
