Walking stick in hand, an elderly resident of a retirement village had to be helped into the witness box of the high court in Gqeberha on Thursday — but that did not stop her from testifying how she identified missing items from the room of her murdered friend and neighbour, Agnes Burns.

Burns, 91, was found dead in her room in the frail care centre of the St Johns Retirement Village in Stella Londt Drive, Sunridge Park, on October 10 2019...