A man in his 30s is expected to appear in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, in connection with the April 2015 murder of school teacher Jayde Panayiotou.
The man is expected to appear on a charge of murder.
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson, Tsepo Ndwalaza told the African News Agency (ANA) on Monday, that a man was arrested on Sunday at his parental home in Greenbushes.
The school teacher’s husband, Christopher Panayiotou is accused of masterminding her abduction and murder in April last year.
It is alleged that Panayiotou paid a bouncer at his Infinity night club, Luthando Siyoni, to hire hitman Sizwezakhe Vumazonke to kidnap and murder his wife.
The state alleged that Sinethemba Nenembe assisted Vumazonke to kidnap and kill Jayde at the behest of her husband.
Panayiotou, whose bid for bail has been turned down several times, has been locked up at the St Albans prison for more than a year.
Ndwalaza said “cellphone plotting” placed the arrested man at the Panayiotou’s Stellen Glenn complex in Deacon Road in Kabega Park from where the alleged kidnapping took place.
The NPA says evidence indicates the arrested man was with murder suspects Vumazonke and Nenembe at the time of the alleged crime.
