Defence attorneys say there are discrepancies in the list of cases that officer Thabo Mosia attended to on the night the footballer was murdered
has requested that state witness and forensic officer Thabo Mosia be recalled to the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial because there were discrepancies in his testimony.that, on 26 October 2014, he was on standby duty as the crime scene investigator responsible for Vosloorus, Zonkizizwe, Reiger Park and Dawn Park, when Brigadier Philani Ndlovu called him at 10.45pm.
Nxumalo said he would like to question Mosia about the exact time he arrived at the scene where the Bafana Bafana footballer was fatally shot in what the state asserts was a botched robbery. “My lord, I would appreciate it if he is recalled. There is a discrepancy in the viva voce evidence [evidence given orally] and the documentary evidence, in a sense that he said he went to attend [a] business robbery from the scene of this [Meyiwa] case, but when one looks at this document, he visited that scene [the business robbery] at 22.50, before he came to the scene of this case,” Nxumalo said.
“The witness testified and, from the documents that were submitted yesterday, when listening to that evidence and what has been testified before, I need to cross-examine the witness on what cases he went to attend on the day of the incident,” she said.
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