More than three months after the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg freed four police officers accused of killing Mthokozisi Ntumba, the State has filed an application for leave to appeal against that decision.
One of the police officers accused of killing Mthokozisi Ntumba during a student protest last year intends suing Police Minister Bheki Cele and the NPA for unlawful arrest and malicious prosecution.
It took a journalist less than three hours to locate the house of a state witness with crucial evidence in the murder trial of Mthokozisi Ntumba after law enforcement agencies failed to find him for four months despite having unlimited tracing resources.
It took Sowetan less than three hours to locate the house of a state witness with crucial evidence in the murder trial of Mthokozisi Ntumba after law enforcement agencies failed to find him for four months despite having unlimited tracing resources.
The bungling of such key evidence that could have helped place the accused at the crime scene is not just a travesty of justice but also a betrayal of victims of crime and their families.