The family of slain Mthokozisi Ntumba and the police watchdog have slammed a disciplinary sanction given to four officers in relation to his killing describing it as a “slap on the wrist”.
It took a journalist less than three hours to locate the house of a state witness with crucial evidence in the murder trial of Mthokozisi Ntumba after law enforcement agencies failed to find him for four months despite having unlimited tracing resources.
It took Sowetan less than three hours to locate the house of a state witness with crucial evidence in the murder trial of Mthokozisi Ntumba after law enforcement agencies failed to find him for four months despite having unlimited tracing resources.
The bungling of such key evidence that could have helped place the accused at the crime scene is not just a travesty of justice but also a betrayal of victims of crime and their families.