Alleged killer cop arraigned for additional charges

Lebogang Mosikare | Wednesday March 5, 2014 10:10

The 33-year-old Atlholang Mojanki of Monarch location is jointly charged with fellow police officer and girlfriend, Tshepho Queen Nlewa (42) for the murder of 28 year-old Sox, a former nurse at Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital, at the beginning of January this year. During Friday’s mention, the state added more charges alleging that Mojanki set on fire a Toyota Corolla belonging to Letsweletse Matome near Mmei Junior Secondary School on April 21, 2012. Goods worth more than P4,000 were destroyed in the car.

State prosecutor Mandla Simon told the court that the substantive prosecutor in the case was allocated the matter last Thursday.  As a result the prosecution was still to study the case, therefore needing two weeks to familiarise itself with the case.

Defence counsel Kabelo Gaonyadiwe consented to the application by the state.  However, the application did not go down well with Principal Magistrate Dumisani Basupi who argued that matters before court ought to be dealt with speedily.

He said that even 30 minutes was enough for the substantive prosecutor to have gone through the case record.  Basupi ruled that the matter be called again on March 7. Both the accused are out on bail.