The advocate for the Haron family said the witness and his colleagues were negligent in not providing the Imam with medical attention. ‘…if it had merely been a question of negligence then the crime arising is known as culpable homicide but if it was an intentional act… that then may convert the crime in question to murder.’
The court heard that Imam Haron’s condition worsened considerably after the apartheid security branch took him from his cell and interrogated him at unknown location for 62 hours.