Sergeant Mandla Masondo told the Pretoria high court on Monday that he had found an unlicensed 9mm pistol and ammunition in the house of accused number three, Mthobisi Mncube.
Sergeant Mandla Masondo, the 10th state witness in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, told the
Masondo told the court that he had 20 years of experience in the organised crime unit, dealing specifically withDuring cross-examination, he said he had been investigating a taxi-related murder case in Alexandra and had traced Mncube to the Johannesburg suburb of Cleveland. He had told Mncube that he was going to charge him with the unlawful possession of a firearm because he could not produce a licence for the gun.
Masondo said Mncube’s Samsung GTE 2220 phone was also confiscated and booked in for a download request to check whether the accused could be linked to the Alexandra taxi murder case and to find out if he had an accomplice.
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