Defence lawyer Charles Mnisi, representing one of the five men accused of killing Senzo Meyiwa, has put it to the soccer star's childhood friend that he had made a terrible mistake in his identification.
The friend, Tumelo Madlala, is one of the people who were in the house when Meyiwa sustained a fatal shot to the chest. It was Madlala and the other house occupants that the shooting came after two robbers allegedly entered the Vosloorus home they were in, demanded valuables and then shot Meyiwa amid a scuffle.
Revisiting Madlala's version of events in the house during cross examination, Mnisi pointed out that his testimony contradicted that of Zandile and Mthokozisi. “That is not true. As I have already said, when the firearm went off I was with Senzo by the door. Including that intruder ,” Madlala said. Mnisi further said that on the basis of “this glaring contradiction would it not have been a dreadful error of mistaken identity on your part that the person who you saw being in a tussle with Senzo were in you came to assist was accused No 2?”
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