Sebina denies knowing deceased

Mpho Mokwape | Thursday March 26, 2015 17:54

 

However he told the court yesterday that he does not know how the deceased’s body landed in his warehouse. He said on the day the deceased was discovered, he was travelling with Stimela and Nkuna from Malotwane to use an ATM in Mochudi, where the police intercepted them. He said they were then taken to Mochudi Police Station where they were questioned and interrogated separately about an alleged abduction and were later taken to Malotwane where the search began.

“The police searched the whole yard including the main house, cars, the workers’ houses and at their final search in the warehouse they found a dead body, I did not know who he was and to this day I still do not know his identity”, he said.

Sebina said the police did not invite him into the warehouse when they searched it, and they did not ask him anything after they found the deceased, but instead took the body away in their van.

“I was outside when they searched the warehouse with a certain police officer by the name of Nnana Koko then after the deceased was found I was taken to a place that I was told belonged to the deceased and before then I had never set my foot there, it was just a place I didn’t know”, he said.

Sebina further told the court that the police later took off his jacket, blood samples and fingerprints to match those with the blood of the deceased. Earlier on he had explained that the car that was found with the deceased’s blood, a White Toyota Hilux, had not been in his possession for a whole week.

He said he had lent it to his friend Nkuna and that he only got to know of an alleged abduction, when they were stopped by the police on their way from Malotwane to Mochudi using the same car, on the same day the body was found at his warehouse.

“The car belongs to me, but that week I was not using it because Aubrey had borrowed it and it was with him for the entire week and even on the day the deceased was found he was the one driving it. I was driving a different car which was metallic blue, I had used it to travel from Gaborone to Malotwane,” he said.

After giving his unsworn evidence the defence team lead by Sidney Pilane closed their case saying the state prosecution had failed to produce any evidence linking their client to the murder. “We rest our case, the state had failed to re-create the events of that fateful day and they have failed to produce any evidence implicating my client,” he said. The defence team that included Pilane, Moses Kadye, and Unoda Mack had called seven witnesses including Sebina and four doctors from South Africa while the state prosecutors, Ambrose Mubika and Mmapatsi Tshimologo closed their case last year with seven witnesses.

April 21, 2015 has been set for the final submissions from both the prosecution and the defence.