Durban - The murder trial of a Bluff teenager who died after he was allegedly hung upside down and beaten in a tattoo parlour has been postponed.
Cody Lynton Houghton, 19, died on February 25, 2017 from blunt force trauma to the head.
Houghton and two of his friends were allegedly falsely accused of stealing a cellphone from the tattoo parlour in Watsonia Road in Bluff.
They were allegedly kidnapped on February 24, assaulted and thereafter released. Houghton died the following morning. He was declared dead on arrival in hospital.
The accused Brandon Ashley Peterson, 37, Neville van der Westhuizen, 37, and Richard Juan Elliot, 23, face charges of murder, three counts of kidnapping and two counts of attempted murder.
The suspects, who made a brief appearance in the Durban Magistrate's Court today, have pleaded not guilty.
The trial has been postponed to October 16 for their new attorney to prepare for the trial.
Houghton's two friends survived the attack.
On Tuesday the family of the deceased were in court wearing T-shirts with the deceased's face on it.