De Kock claims former General removed evidence in Cradock Four murder case

Former apartheid police commander Eugene De Kock said that former general Isak Engelbrecht removed traces of evidence linked to the killing of the Cradock Four.

Engelbrecht has been implicated in the killing of the Cradock Four but denied direct involvement.

Earlier this week, a former police officer testified at the high court in Gqeberha that a docket containing a completed investigation on the murders was handed to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), only for it to disappear.

De Kock pointed to Engelbrecht as the person who may have removed the evidence.

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He’s been testifying at the reopened inquest into the Cradock Four murders—where activists Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkonto, Sicelo Mhlauli and Fort Calata were abducted and killed in 1985.  

"There was no reason for him to fly down to PE except to make sure there’s no DNA, no evidence and if there’s any to remove it, and there’s evidence like that in the case of… I was there when he covered up the Stanza Bopape case and a few others I was sitting in on that."