Murder accused Corrine Jackson needs to produce a medical report before a magistrate can decide whether she can be sent to Valkenberg Hospital or receive private care for her alleged mental problems.
Earlier this month, the magistrate at Mitchells Plain Regional Court suggested Jackson be sent to Valkenberg Hospital after her lawyer said a medical report would be produced to prove she had a psychological condition.
Jackson had been booked into a private hospital in March.
She is facing charges of assault and murder for her estranged girlfriend, Nadine Esterhuizen, 18, who was killed in 2017.
On Thursday, the defence did not have the report and the irate magistrate ordered that Jackson’s medical report must be ready by 16 May.
In September 2017 during her bail application, Detective Constable Jacquin Paulse told the court that Jackson should be denied bail as she was mentally unstable.
VICTIM: Nadine Esterhuizen
Jackson allegedly admitted to him that she listened to music to help calm her and that she attempted to commit suicide a month before Nadine’s murder.
He said Jackson had a history of mental illness.
Jackson is currently out on R5000 bail.
Prosecutors are set to prove that Jackson, 20, stabbed Nadine at a house in Colorado Park, and tried to cut her neck off.
Jackson was found hiding in the toilet with a bloody dagger and chopping knife.
Nadine had also obtained a protection order against Jackson and had opened a case of assault following an alleged attack at Strandfontein Pavilion in July 2017.
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