A new witness is expected to take the stand in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial when it resumes in the High Court in Pretoria on Monday.
Graphic of the scales of justice and a gavel.Five men are on trial for the murder of the soccer star in October 2014.
The court heard on Friday that the bag containing the firearm allegedly taken from one of the accused, Mthobisi Mncube, in 2015, was not sealed when a ballistic expert booked it out of police storage in 2020.The defence Advocate Zandile Msholo argued that anything could have happened between 2015 and 2020.
“And from what has transpired from these records, it shows that there is no evidence from the duration of 5 years, this exhibit was kept in a sealed exhibit bag?”Mtshali was questioned by State Prosecutor George Baloyi as to why this firearm was not destroyed after the investigation in accordance with a directive issued in 2017.
“One can keep a gun for years before it is destroyed because there’s a lot of paperwork that needs to be done before. There’s a special procedure that needs to be followed. The national office is the only office that is responsible for firearms with serial numbers that have been filed off. The process to destroy a firearm is even longer for firearms with serial numbers that have been filed off.”
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