State’s evidence in Meyiwa trial within a trial described as weak

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Defence lawyer Thulani Mngomezulu believes that the state has failed dismally to prove that confessions by accused numbers 1 and 2 were made freely and voluntarily.

Baloyi was making submissions in his heads of argument in the Pretoria High Court. Muzi Sibiya, Bongani Ntanzi and three other accused are on trial for the murder in 2014 of former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa.

Court proceedings:

The soccer star was shot and killed at his girlfriend Kelly Khumalo’s parental home in Vosloorus, on Gauteng’s East Rand.

Mngomezulu elaborates, ” But what is very important here is whether the state satisfied the court that he made the statement freely and voluntary in his sober state. Whether the accused is lying, is misrepresenting his facts, distorting information but ultimately the law requires the accused person to give evidence which is both reasonably and possibly true. Hence I’m saying in my submission the evidence given by Ntanzi to some extent I’ll discourage the fact that certain issues must be excluded as being reasonably true.”