The 21-year-old student who was arrested in connection with the grisly crime has been denied bail and declared a danger to society
Despite the accused's earnest attempts to justify his presence at the crime scene and shift the blame onto another individual in the Kirsten Kluyts case, the State asserted the likelihood of his involvement in her murder and rape.
CCTV footage placed the accused at the scene of the crime on the day, but he said he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
His lawyers argued that there were various alternative explanations for what happened, aside from him having been responsible.
In closing arguments on Friday, though, public prosecutor Ayanda Bakana said that "the principle of Occam's razor states that the simplest answer is most probably the correct one”.
Bakana also maintained that while the defence said the accused took the court into his confidence by taking the stand in these proceedings, he was "selective" with his evidence, and only made admissions where "he knew he had no grounds on which to dispute certain facts".
Bakana also maintained that despite the defence’s arguments to the contrary, the State had a strong case against the accused.