Meyiwa trial: The court has been dealing with cellphone data

JOHANNESBURG - Evidence given by a forensic analyst in the Senzo Meyiwa trial has been corroborated by the version of one of the accused on his whereabouts hours before the football star was murdered.

The court has been dealing with cellphone data as the state continues to make its case.

Five men are standing trial for the 2014 murder in what police believe was a hit.

Cellphone data presented by Pinky Vythilingam has shown that a cellphone linked to the third accused Mthobisi Mncube was pinging at a tower in Vosloorus just hours before Senzo Meyiwa was killed.

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This matches the version by state witness Constable Sizwe Zungu that Mncube was among the men who were at the Vosloorus Basotho Hostel on the day Senzo Meyiwa was killed.

But it also shows that a call between cellphones attributed to Mncube and Fisokuhle Ntuli pinged at the Benrose Tower near the George Goch hostel.

This corroborates Ntuli’s version, presented by his lawyer Advocate Zandile Mshololo in October last year.

This confirmation from Vythilingam had the accused laughing and smiling.
The last time Mncube’s phone was caught on a cellphone tower on the day Meyiwa was killed was in a place called Alexander Park just before 7pm.

The state believes Meyiwa was murdered at around 8 pm.