April 11 2012 at 07:28am
By SHAIN GERMANER
10/04/2012 Crime Intelligence boss, Richard Mdluli during a wreath laying ceremony for fallen intelligence civilian community at the State Intellegence Agency's headquarters in Pretoria. Picture: Phill Magakoe
Richard Mdluli, the man tipped to be SA’s next police commissioner, might never be charged with ordering the murder of his lover’s husband – because key evidence has been destroyed.
On Tuesday, an inquest got under way to ascertain if there was enough evidence to charge Mdluli, and three other suspects, for the 13-year-old murder.
The court heard of doctored case dockets, missing files and even the disappearance of evidence in a rape case that have been attributed to Mdluli and three other suspects, court orderly Samuel Dlomo, 49, Colonel Nkosana Sebastian Ximba, 38, and Lieutenant-Colonel Mtunzi-Omhle Mthembeni Mtunzi, 52.
Last year, the State argued that Mdluli, who commanded the Vosloorus police station’s detective branch between 1997 and 1999, got his junior officers to help him hunt down, kidnap and kill his girlfriend’s new husband, Oupa Ramogibe, in the late 1990s.
Mdluli was suspended last year in connection with the 1999 kidnapping and murder. He was also charged with defrauding the police and a Pretoria car dealership of more than R90 000, and for causing it to lose a further R1.28 million.
But all the charges were withdrawn and Mdluli was reinstated at the beginning of this month.
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http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/evidence-destroyed-in-mdluli-murder-case-1.1273247
