Sloppy police work lets drug dealer off hook
Posted : 29 November 2012
ROB KNOWLES
A MAN who confessed a year ago to being in possession
of 92 mandrax tablets, had charges against him dismissed in the Port Alfred
Magistrate’s Court last Wednesday due to the state not proving its case.
Inconsistencies in the testimony by the
arresting officers over the colour of the bag in which the drugs were found, to
conflicting descriptions of his home, saw Bongani Poni walk out of a court a
free man.
Poni was arrested for possession of illegal
substances on November 17 last year by two student constables, Mzwebandla
(Glen) Lobese and Sinethemba Soyi. They claimed to have seen Poni walking along
Wharf Street toward Nemato at around 12.30am.
