A 'habitual criminal' who is currently behind bars for alleged murder and eight charges of housebreaking, appeared briefly in the Port Elizabeth Magistrates Court on Monday.
Sizwe Jika, who is described as a habitual criminal by police, was linked by DNA to the murder of 26-year-old Kelly Bain.
Bain was murdered in her townhouse in Brymore in July last year, whilst her one-month-old baby was sleeping.
Jika was first arrested in September last year but made a daring escape through a window at the Walmer Park police station.
Police eventually tracked him down in Aliwal North in October.
Police Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says Jika's DNA also linked him to another murder in May last year in Kamma Park.
The 86-year-old Ann Smit was brutally assaulted in her home and later died in hospital.
Naidu says Jika has already been found guilty on 12 other cases of housebreaking and theft committed since 2007.
Jika will be back in court for Bain's murder on the 28th of February and is also expected to make an appearance this month in connection with Smit's murder.
