Dylan Bettencourt
The crime scene where Senzo Meyiwa was murdered was intentionally cleaned up before the police arrived.
The accusation of an intentional cleanup of the scene was heard at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Monday.
Advocate Zandile Mshololo, representing the fifth suspect told Sergeant Thabo Mosia, the forensic investigator who arrived at the scene first, that the scene had been tampered with.
Mshololo read out a witness statement but would not reveal the authors of the statement.
“I was amazed to see water on the floor when I was told somebody was shot in the house. Maggie Phiri started to pick up the empties from the floor,” the witness statement read.
“I asked her why she was tidying up before the police could arrive. Maggie responded that she does not want police to see that the people who were in the house were drinking.”
Mshololo asked Mosia if he could now see that the murder scene was cleaned before he arrived.
He said: “I understand.”
The former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was shot and killed on 26 October 2014 at a house in Vosloorus which belonged to the mother of his girlfriend Kelly Khumalo.
Khumalo was last week accused of “mistakenly” killing the former Orlando Pirates goalkeeper by an eyewitness who is yet to appear in court.
The trial continues with Mosia remaining on the stand.
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