Johannesburg - Murder accused Candice Prevost and Ashley de Villiers seemed to be oblivious of everyone around them in the Protea Magistrate’s Court.
They stood in front of the Soweto magistrate, holding hands, gazing into each other’s eyes and whispering to each other now and again.
Behind them and seated in the galley, the mother of the woman they allegedly murdered stared at them, seething.
“Look at them,” Kedibone Selesho muttered.
Next to the lovers in the dock, a bespectacled Wayne Williams, Prevost’s former fiancé, smiled nervously.
Williams, De Villiers and Prevost are accused of killing Selesho’s daughter Nthabiseng, 23, by strangling her and burning her body in her car.
Nthabiseng was mother to a 4-month-old baby.
She had worked for a jewellery shop for two years.
On September 4, the day she was killed, she had gone to see Prevost - a client of the jewellery shop since 2007 - to show her a few pieces.
Nthabiseng had jewellery worth about R300 000 with her and was to see another client afterwards, her employers said.
When Nthabiseng arrived at the Boksburg home Prevost shared with her current and former fiancé, she was strangled and robbed, police say.
The trio allegedly doused the car with petrol in the veld in Lenasia and set it alight. They were arrested a few days later after Prevost admitted to the crimes.
When Selesho saw the trio in court on Monday, she said: “Here comes the satans.”
On Thursday, when she saw them for the first time, she shouted in court: “Why did you kill her?”