The Citizen (Gauteng)

Detective ‘was at hit’

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The National Prosecutin­g Authority (NPA) revealed yesterday that it has DNA evidence placing a suspended police detective at the scene of a botched hit at the notorious Glebelands Hostel in Umlazi.

State Advocate Dorian Paver read the revelation into the court record at the Durban Regional Court yesterday.

The statement was given as part of the reasons why the state should not grant bail to six of the seven men, including the officer, accused of being part of a “committee” that organised and carried out at least nine killings against people they believed either threatened them or stood in the way of the group’s ambition to hijack rental collection­s at the hostel complex, south of Durban.

Paver, reading the affidavit of police Lieutenant-Colonel Bhekumuzi Sikhakhane from the Durban Organised Crime Unit (OCU), said the specialise­d unit first began to investigat­e the “incidents” at Glebelands after the release of a damning public protector report made public in June 2017. – ANA

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