Albert Mduduzi Gama, the guesthouse security guard arrested in connection with Hillary Gardee’s kidnapping and murder, told the court on Tuesday he had never met her.
Albert Mduduzi Gama has asked the court to grant him bail. He was arrested in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Hillary Gardee.The guesthouse security guard arrested in connection with Hillary Gardee’s kidnapping and murder said on Tuesday he had never met her.
Testifying in his bail application at the Mbombela magistrate’s court, Albert Mduduzi Gama also said he was nowhere near the location where her abduction allegedly took place. At the time of his arrest, Gama’s primary residence was one of the lodges owned by co-accused Philemon Lukhele, which served as accommodation for students.Gama, who said he was illiterate, could not provide the court with his street address on Tuesday. He said he lived at one of three lodges owned by his boss Lukhele.
His sister Sibongile took to the witness box and offered her home for him to stay at if he is granted bail. In brief testimony, she confirmed her brother is a South African citizen who was born in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.also pleaded for his release pending trial, saying he was the family breadwinner and they were suffering in his absence. She said Gama usually visited her and the children at her home in Kanyamazane, outside Mbombela, at weekends when he was not working.
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