MANDISI Gwanya (30), who is charged with child slaughter and cannibalism, will spend Christmas behind bars.
He appeared briefly in the Port St Johns Magistrates Court yesterday.
The case will go before a regional court on 23 January to determine if the accused will walk out a free man or will spend years in jail.
In September the so called “Port St Johns cannibal” was found mentally unfit to stand trial by doctors at Fort England psychiatric hospital in Grahamstown.
He is accused of killing his nephew, Kamvelihle Ngala (4) at their home in Kwantsila Village.
He is charged with cannibalism and child slaughter for having skinned his nephew, drunk his blood and eaten his heart and brains.
The shocking, gruesome murder which rocked the province happened on Easter Monday.
During his first court appearance, Mandisa told a magistrate he wanted to be sentenced and serve his term, and pleaded guilty to all charges.
National Prosecuting Authority regional spokesman Luxolo Tyali said. “The magistrate is not in a position to finalise a murder case.
“It was transferred to a regional court where the decision of the director of Public Prosecutions will be
endorsed.”
