CAPE TOWN – The man who murdered three-year-old Courtney Pieters will be back in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday.

Mortimer Saunders admitted to killing the Elsies River toddler last year.

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Last week, a DNA expert testified that he had found a positive match of the accused’s semen on a top worn by Pieters on the day she died.

Saunders has confessed to poisoning, beating, choking and suffocating the child, but he denies raping her.

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The State has not accepted his pleas and is prosecuting him on charges of premeditated murder and rape.

A pathologist is expected to take the stand on Tuesday.

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