Reboeleng, 31, is challenging a confession statement the state say she made back in 2022 following an intercepted robbery in main mall which led to 10 people later dying in a shoot-out. “She did not look emotionally distressed, she was not crying, she did not look like someone in pain. I have encountered cases where a suspect brought to me looked to be in pain and I had to intervene, but to me she (Reboeleng) did not seem distressed. I was satisfied that she was of sound and sober mind,” he said. The judicial officers were giving evidence in a trial within a trial, following an application by the accused, Tsaone Reboeleng to challenge her alleged confession.
Reboeleng’s lawyer, Kgosietsile Ngakaagae had put it to the Magistrate that when giving her statement Reboeleng had not recovered from witnessing her housemate being executed in front of her and having nursed a wound from three days aback, and that she could possibly not have been fit to voluntarily give a confession.
