Murder accused Corrine Jackson has apparently run out of money.
This after her legal team has indicated they are awaiting financial instruction before they can continue representing her.
This bombshell was dropped at the Mitchells Plain Regional Court on Thursday where Jackson, 20, made a brief appearance.
Jackson’s pre-trial proceedings was expected to get underway where she was to plead to her charges of murder and assault.
But her legal team, William Booth Attorneys, indicated they needed financial instructions from their client at this stage.
The matter was postponed to 4 September to indicate where they stood financially.
Prosecutors are set to prove Jackson stabbed her girlfriend, Nadine Esterhuizen, 18, close to 21 times inside a residence in Colorado Park, Micthells Plain in September 2017.
GRIM: Nadine Esterhuizen, 18
And that Jackson had allegedly tried to cut her neck off with a 20cm long and 4cm deep knife wound.
Jackson was found hiding in the toilet with a dagger and a chopping knife.
Pathologists confirmed the attack had been done with severe aggression but was not satanic in nature.
During her bail hearing, Jackson has denied killing her girlfriend on purpose, claiming she had acted in self-defence.
She is currently out on R5000 bail.
Nadine who was in matric at the time, had also obtained a protection order against Jackson and had opened a case of assault following an alleged incident where she was attacked at Strandfontein Pavilion in July 2017.