20 Nov 2017
CK needed in court for another case on Wednesday. Judge asks if defence will be done by then. Van der Spuy says he will try. Court adjourned until tomorrow.
20 Nov 2017
CK says it can be both subconscious reflex action when in "agonal state" or, can be because changed mind - scratches on neck during hanging.
20 Nov 2017
Coetzee-Khan says is can be within five to 10 minutes that they are dead and lists physical responses recorded as a result of pressure on the carotid artery.
20 Nov 2017
Now we are looking at "mechanism of death" regarding strangulation and hanging like constricting bloodflow to heart, obstruction of airways.
20 Nov 2017
Where did that come from? says CK when defence accuses him of putting on blinkers and advising police to consider taking Jason Rohde's passport.
20 Nov 2017
Examination of Jason Rohde showed he had little cut on his finger - he had cut himself a day or two before with vase that he broke - a day or 2 after Susan's death + 2 superficial scratch marks that need a magnifying glass.
20 Nov 2017
Susan Rohde had blood in her nose. CK is asked if the cup of blood in her stomach was from this. CK says she would have had to have been bleeding while she was still alive.
20 Nov 2017
Going through who was in the room when the autopsy was done - police etc - and that forensic pathology officer Victor Ngindisi bathed Susan Rohde's body when it was completed.
20 Nov 2017
Rohde defence says histological and microscopic examination - the third leg in the autopsy on Susan Rohde - was missing.
20 Nov 2017
CK says Susan Rohde's cause of death was obvious to the naked eye - manual strangulation.
20 Nov 2017
Rohde trial resumes after lunch with defence saying he spoke to a leading pathologist who said Coetzee-Khan should have taken some specimens of Susan's stomach in the matter of the blood traces.
20 Nov 2017
ICYMI:
Dr Reggie Perumal did a second autopsy at Rohde’s request more than a week after Susan's death.
His report suggested her injuries were consistent with ligature strangulation.
Read more on conflicting autopsy reports...
20 Nov 2017
Defence wants to know why CK did not note "smothering" in his report. CK points it out as "item e" in his report - factor which was included in coming to his conclusion.
20 Nov 2017
Coetzee-Khan says the hypostasis could have changed if Susan Rohde was cut down within 30 minutes after her death.
20 Nov 2017
Rohde's defence says he has consulted far and wide, and contends CK is "100% wrong" about his position of death finding. CK says defence must bring them to testify.
20 Nov 2017
Lividy refers to the colour left on the body due to the process of hypostatis - accumulation of blood in lower and dependent parts of body.
20 Nov 2017
Now defence is going over CKs notes on how he determined that Susan died lying down based on lividity he noted. Lividity is the way fluid goes to the lowest point of the body after death due to gravity.
20 Nov 2017
ICYMI:
Mark Thompson, a colleague of murder-accused Jason Rohde, previously testified in court as the State's first witness.
Thompson tried to resuscitate his wife Susan at the Spier Wine Farm.
He told the court that he saw Susan Rohde's body lying on the bathroom floor and immediately started compressing her chest and blew into her mouth.
He forgot to block her nose. He had never performed CPR before.
Read more...
20 Nov 2017
CK is accused of writing in his handwritten notes that Susan Rohde's hyoid was broken, changing this in typed notes. Strong denial.
20 Nov 2017
Defence says he will bring someone in to prove CK is wrong. CK says defence can do so.
20 Nov 2017
CK found fractures in ribs, three to five, in the front of Susan #Rohde's body. Defence says Perumal found another rib broken - VD Spuy asks CK how he could have missed this.
20 Nov 2017
CK explains that the reason it's blood stained is because it is mixed with gastric fluid. It was predominantly blood so he started looking for an ulcer in Susan's stomach.
20 Nov 2017
The forensic pathology officer who helped Dr Coetzee-Khan with Susan #Rohde's autopsy is Mr V Ngindisi.
20 Nov 2017
Rohde defence says six experts disagree with CK. CK says if anybody disagrees with him they can come and tesify.
20 Nov 2017
The thoracic cavity is also known as the chest area of the body, which includes everything between the neck and the diaphragm.
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