Decorated Gqeberha policeman, Warrant Officer Severiano Blundin, may walk away a free man if he is successful in an application to have charges of kidnapping and assault withdrawn.
Allegations of a trial by ambush, discrepancies in a witness’s testimony and objectionable questioning by a prosecutor, marked the day on Wednesday in the trial of a decorated police officer facing charges of kidnapping and assault.
Thrown into the back of a BMW after having their hands cable-tied and bags placed over their heads, what allegedly followed was a night of aggressive assaults on a group of men.
An award-winning policeman arrested in connection with a string of charges, including kidnapping, appeared briefly in the magistrate’s court in Gqeberha on Wednesday.