The State has got the wrong people in the dock for the murders and attempted assassinations of University of Fort Hare staff members while the real killers are roaming free, the Dimbaza Magistrate's Court heard.
Lawyers of the five men accused of murdering two University of Fort Hare employees clubbed together to buy diesel after it emerged that the Dimbaza Magistrate's Court's backup generator had none to power it.
“I would never travel from Durban to come and kill people in East London. I am not a killer,” one of the men accused of the murders of University of Fort Hare staff members said. Shocking details leading up to the killings emerged in the Dimbaza magistrate’s court on Wednesday as three of the five men accused of murdering the Fort Hare fleet manager Petrus Roets and Mboneli Vesele, the vice-chancellor’s bodyguard, took the witness box for the first time for the continuation of their bail.
If released on bail, the alleged hitmen arrested for the murders of University of Fort Hare officials would kill witnesses and collapse the State's case, said the investigating officer.