‘Teen was thrown out of bakkie’

COLIGNY: A dead teenager was thrown out of a moving bakkie, the Coligny Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday during the bail application of two men.

Brigadier Cliffard Kgorane told the court that a witness saw two farmers – Pieter Doorewaard and Phillip Schutte – throw Matlhamola Jonas Mosweu, 17, out of a moving vehicle on April 20.

“When they realised someone saw them, they made a U-turn, picked up the deceased, and confronted the witness, asking if he had seen what happened,” Kgorane said.

“The witness told them he did not see anything. They took him (the witness), put him in the back of the bakkie and drove for about 48km, in the meantime they threatened the witness.

“They eventually drove to a dam where they pointed a gun at the witness, made him drink alcohol and ordered him to run in front of a moving bakkie at the same time firing shots around him. He vomited and collapsed.

“The two left him there, all this time the boy (Mosweu) was lying in the back of the bakkie.”

“They took the witness’s cellphone and on April 21, they went to his home and told him not to tell the police or anyone else about what happened.”

Kgorane said Mosweu was found in a pool of blood after the accused dumped him at the side of the road.

The two farmers allegedly went to the Coligny police, to report that a boy fell off a bakkie and that the police call an ambulance and go to the scene. They apparently refused to take the police to the scene, stating that they had other business to attend to.

Kgorane said the lives of the accused were in danger. “They are safer in custody.”

He told the court there was a possibility that charges of kidnapping and defeating the ends of justice could be added to their charge sheet.

The bail application continues today. – ANA