Meyiwa trial: Police photographer to present more pictures he took from inspection in loco
Sergeant Gezani Mhangani has been testifying on the pictures he took earlier in July when the court left the courtroom and was taken to Vosloorus for the inspection.
The witness stand at the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial taken on on 15 May 2023. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News
JOHANNESBURG - A police photographer will on Wednesday morning present more pictures that he took from the inspection in loco in the Senzo Meyiwa trial.
Sergeant Gezani Mhangani has been testifying on the pictures he took earlier in July when the court left the courtroom and was taken to Vosloorus for the inspection.
This was for one of the five men accused of Meyiwa’s 2014 murder to show where police allegedly assaulted him while forcing him to confess.
Five men are being tried for the Bafana Bafana captain’s murder in what the State believes was a hit by his lover, Kelly Khumalo.
Sergeant Gezani Mhangani told the court on Tuesday that he took pictures on 4 July during the inspection in loco, as he was instructed by the lawyers in this case.
He said he returned to the municipal precinct without being instructed to do so in order to take pictures of the area with no people present so that the court could have a clearer view.
During cross-examination by Muzi Sibiya’s lawyer, Advocate Charles Mnisi, he told the court that he took some pictures on the day of the inspection, which State advocate George Baloyi asked him to take.
Mnisi asked, “Adv Baloyi says to you, when you had a discussio,n both of you also take a picture there. Is that what happened?”
“No. When we were there, there was everyone we were walking and then he needs photos of this place,” Mhangani replied.
Mhangani told the court that he took more pictures than the ones he added to his album, and the defence asked that he bring those to court on Wednesday morning.