Police pester family to hand over medical report

Mpho Mokwape | Monday October 20, 2014 16:55

 

The Monitor team drove to Pitsane on Sunday morning and found a family gripped by fear. The family have even backed off from having their photos published because they fear the police who have been frequenting their yard countless times demanding to have the medical report.

The mother, Katherine Moraladi told The Monitor team at her homestead yesterday in Pitshane that the police have been constantly nagging her to hand over the medical report of her injured daughter.

“The police are not giving us answers why they shot my child but what is surprising is that they want the medical report. It would be not wise of me to give them the papers because I have no idea what they might do with them”, she said.

She said she refused to release the papers to the police despite threats from the officers of the law.

What was surprising was that on the previous day, The Monitor team had talked to the family and had arranged to meet with them at their homestead for photos but on the appointed  day the family avoided the calls.

After finding other means to arrive at the victim’s homestead, the team came in contact with the young woman who clearly shows difficulty in walking as she is still nursing the injured leg. She directed us to her mother who admits that she was deliberately avoiding our calls adding that she had a talk with her husband who advised her to avoid the papers as he had already engaged a lawyer.

“We decided not to talk to the press yet and that my daughter has made it clear that she does not want to appear in papers”, she said.

She further said the police also wanted her daughter to describe the officers who shot her..

“I am surprised too that the police accused my daughter of being a thief and that since she is part of the police cluster programme, they told her that she should hand over the equipment  and labeled her  a thief”, she said.