A prosecutor has come to the defence of the now retired judge who found Christopher Panayiotou guilty of his wife’s murder, claiming the allegations made against justice Dayalin Chetty in papers to the Constitutional Court were baseless and without warrant.

State advocate Marius Stander highlighted further that it was not the first time Panayiotou’s counsel had accused a judge of being biased following a conviction – and that this, in any event, was not grounds for an appeal to the highest court in SA...