“The family was upset that the department was asking to do the autopsy now when they had the body for so long without doing it.” AnElectricLady
Dr Richard Lebethe, a senior official of the department, said he feared that evidence would be lost if Sizwe Hlatshwayo was buried, he told the Life Esidimeni inquest in the Pretoria high court yesterday.
“The fear was that if Sizwe got buried, we would have to exhume and lose evidence that is important,” said Lebethe in his statement. The Life Esidimeni inquest seeks to find if anyone can be held criminally liable for the deaths of 144 mental health patients who died from neglect at various non-governmental organisations across the province.
Lebethe said he was not directly involved with the marathon project but worked in parallel with the mental healthcare department to check some of the infrastructure of the NGOs.One of these was Precious Angels, where 23 people died.
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