Former wrestling and show promoter Shane Jaipal presented a judge with telephone records and other evidence to prove his alibi defence on Tuesday.

State advocate Santhos Manilall applied to Judge Hillary Squires, sitting in the circuit court at Pinetown, for an adjournment in order to make investigations into the evidence and decide whether to apply to reopen the state's case.

Manilall said Argentina Loutsaris's eldest son, Victor, was concerned about the veracity of telephone records presented to court as his mother's telephone records.

Jaipal has pleaded not guilty to murdering Argentina, his former lover, by forcing her car off the road, dousing her with petrol and setting her alight on October 21 1997. Jaipal says he was in Umtata on the day of the murder.

Judge Squires granted Manilall's application for an adjournment to Friday.

Telkom employee Vicky Panday said a call was made from Argentina's home phone to an Umtata number at 10.59am on the day of her death.

Jaipal claims he phoned Argentina from a public phone in Umtata that day and asked her to phone him at the University of Transkei where he was waiting to see the dean of the medical faculty.

Mantsi Sethunthsa, the dean's secretary, said she recognised the number as her office number and remembered Jaipal had come to see the dean in October 1997.

Panday also said that two calls were made from a Durban number at 9.31pm and 9.37pm on the night of October 20, 1997.

Jaipal has claimed Argentina phoned him twice about that time, asking him to fix the window of a car she had borrowed from Durban advocate Shan Govender.

With acknowledgements to Sue Blaine and Independent Online.