By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
The Pretoria High Court is once again unpacking allegations of contamination of the scene of Senzo Meyiwa’s murder on Tuesday.
The second leg of the trial into the Bafana Bafana captain’s murder got off to a slow start on Monday.
This was because of a dispute on whether Netflix production company Ten10 Films should be allowed to film proceedings.
During the proceedings, defence advocate Malesela Teffo said Meyiwa was not rushed to hospital so his life could be saved after he was shot, but he was already dead and the intention was to “dump” his body at the mortuary.
Teffo put it to forensic fieldworker Sergeant Thabo Mosia that a defence witness will testify to this.
Initially, he questioned why Mosia did not photograph Meyiwa’s body in the hospital after it emerged that he had succumbed to his injuries.
Mosia responded that his job was to collect evidence from the scene. He added that in any event, he could not photograph the body while it was still in the hospital.
Teffo then asserted that the crime scene was contaminated because Meyiwa had been taken to the hospital.
Mosia previously testified that he was told that Meyiwa was rushed to hospital by people who were in the house at the time he was shot.
Teffo claimed it was illegal because they did not have medical training.
The advocate then put it to Mosia that a witness will testify that Meyiwa was already dead when he was transported to hospital by his girlfriend, Kelly Khumalo.
Teffo added: They weren’t going to save him. Actually, they were going to dump him at the hospital mortuary.
He said the witness would testify that Meyiwa was declared dead at 21:15.
The State objected to this line of questioning and asked who the witness was and in what capacity the person would testify on Meyiwa’s time of death.
But Teffo would not disclose the identity of any of his witnesses because their lives are under threat.
Mosia reiterated that he could only answer questions relating to the evidence he collected at the crime scene.
Five men are standing trial for the 2014 murder of Meyiwa at the home of his girlfriend, singer Kelly Khumalo.
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