The young man accused of murdering his own mother and then hiding her body in a wheelie bin may be set free after his case was marked for final postponement.
Shakoor Roberts, 26, was expected to appear in the Mitchells Plain Regional Court on Tuesday. However, he failed to arrive from Pollsmoor Prison.
Two weeks ago, Roberts was also not in court when he was left behind at the jail.
Roberts is facing a charge of murdering his mom Gafsa Roberts, 61.
On Tuesday, his sister, Rushana Adams, other relatives and members of the Mitchells Plain Crisis Forum were shocked when they heard that Roberts was not in the court holding cells.
It later emerged that he had not been collected at Pollsmoor and that the warders had marked 24 November as his next court appearance.
The case was then postponed to 14 November as a final postponement.
Rushana said: “She was not an animal, she was a human being. We have been waiting for two-and- a-half years for him to be arrested and now they keep not fetching him from Pollsmoor. This is very frustrating.”
Gafsa’s badly decomposed body was discovered by a neighbour in a wheelie bin outside her home in Winterhoek Street, Tafelsig, in March 2015, after she went missing for three days.
It’s believed Gafsa was beaten to death but a cause of death was never established.
Family members claim Roberts is a satanist and that his mother feared him, and slept with a knife under her pillow.
Roberts is diagnosed as having schizophrenia.