JOHANNESBURG, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Controversies over the murder of South African right-wing leader Eugene Terre'Blanche deepened on Sunday when South African National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele said there was semen found on the body.

Nonkululeko Mbatha, spokeswoman for Cele, on Sunday confirmed a report on South Africa's e.tv channel saying there was semen found on Terre'Blanche.

"His body was found half naked with semen on his private part. That is not new information, it has always been part of the evidence," she told the South African Press Association (SAPA).

Mbatha said this was part of the evidence being investigated and there were other leads being followed by the police.

Earlier Cele told Sunday's Afrikaans language newspaper Rapport that the "sex issue" had always been there because Terre'Blanche's body was found with his pants down and "were wet with semen."

However, Cele said there was no condom found on the scene, as it was reported in the media last week.

On Wednesday, at a bail hearing at the Ventersdorp magistrate's court in South Africa's North West province, a lawyer for one of the accused decided to abandon the claim that his client had been sodomized by TerreBlannche.

Lawyer Puna Moroko, representing Chris Mahlangu, 28, one of the two accused of Terre'Blanche's death, told journalists outside the court that his client initially spoke of being sodomized by the right-wing leader, but that further questioning had revealed this could not be true.