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Original Post Date: 2008-04-18 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
The Pretoria High Court trial of the men accused of raping and murdering three Mamelodi schoolgirls was postponed again on Thursday.
This happened because of a dispute over whether a complaint about the alleged torture of one of the accused had been investigated.
Acting Judge Chris Eksteen earlier this week requested the presence of a superintendent and another police officer to explain why charges by Vusi Maphai that he had been tortured had not been investigated.
The allegations have delayed the trial of Ephraim Mkihali, 23, and Maphai, 35, several times already and on Thursday it was again postponed to May 20.
The men are accused of raping and strangling three Mamelodi school girls, Tsholofelo Aphane, Lindiwe Mbonane and Lerato Ndinisa and robbing them of their cellphones while they were relaxing in a local park in April 2006.
The bodies of the three girls, all childhood friends who lived in the same street, were found dumped behind a shopping centre in Mamelodi West.
All had been strangled or smothered to death.
Counsel for Maphai, HJC van Rensburg, earlier accused the police of doing nothing to investigate the complaint by his client.
This was despite a High Court order, granted in November last year, that the complaint must be investigated, an identity parade held and defence counsel kept informed of the investigation.
Senior Superintendent Jan Witbooi, however, told the court the matter had been investigated and he did not know what else there was to investigate.
He said the accused had already pointed out a police captain, who had since died, and he did not know who else he should call to take part in an identity parade.
Eksteen said if the policeman felt he had done his duty, he should ask the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to advise him on the way forward.
Maphai’s Counsel should also talk to the DPP in an effort to settle the dispute so that the trial could commence, he said. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080417132804265C405710