RobPackham's blood was also found in the bathroom basin at the couple's Constantia home in Cape Town.
But the former beverage production company manager is yet to explain the blood's presence, the policeman who investigated the murder told the high court in Cape Town on Wednesday.
Sonnenberg said he could not access the data on the cellphone because Packham claimed to have forgotten the access code."We asked the accused to give us the … but he later said he had forgotten it," said Sonnenberg."We haven't accessed it." Cellphone evidence placed Packham at the scene where Gill's BMW, with her body in the boot, caught fire at Diep River railway station, said Sonnenberg.
According to the state, the 57-year-old was bust by licence-plate recognition cameras that showed him driving the BMW, while cellphone towers showed he drove around Constantia on the day of her disappearance.
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