Deportation blunder may set arson suspect free

Wednesday, May 07, 2014

FRANCISTOWN: Prosecution in the Sebina arsonist suspect are clutching at straws following the deportation of two key witnesses. Mcgini Ncube is charged on two counts of arson allegedly committed at the North East village last August.

Yesterday, senior Magistrate Thebeetsile Mulalu expressed shock that the key witnesses in the case, Themba Chuma and Nanelihle Moyo, had been deported to Zimbabwe for not being in possession of passports nor workers’ permits.

The police at Nkhwinya field, in the vicinity of Sebina, allegedly found the two as they were tracking some shoeprints that the state is arguing, belonged to Ncube.

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Deportation blunder may set arson suspect free

FRANCISTOWN: Prosecution in the Sebina arsonist suspect are clutching at straws following the deportation of two key witnesses. Mcgini Ncube is charged on two counts of arson allegedly committed at the North East village last August.

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