Scott-Crossley’s trial begins next month

Convicted killer Mark Scott-Crossley will stand trial for attempted murder in the Lenyenye Regional Court next month, Limpopo police said yesterday.

The Limpopo game farmer was charged after assaulting a wildlife centre worker last year.

The “Lion Man”, so named after he threw a worker into a lion’s enclosure in 2004, allegedly twice drove his car over the worker.

The employee, Silence Mabunda, was hospitalised after the incident.

Scott-Crossley evaded arrest and was finally nabbed in Pretoria in January.

While incarcerated for murder after the lion case, Scott-Crossley was also charged with assaulting a fellow inmate, Jacobus Cordier, at the Barberton maximum security prison in December 2006.

The Barberton Magistrate’s Court found him guilty of assault and sentenced him to a fine of R4 000 or two years’ imprisonment. He paid the fine. He was released on parole in 2008.

Scott-Crossley’s bid for bail failed in the Lenyenye court last month.

Supporters of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the ANC have held protests outside court every time he appeared.

The trial will get underway on April 12. – ANA