Family suspects police brutality after CT man dies in custody
Police arrested
Nadeem Khan in Rondebosch last week on suspicion of selling a stolen cellphone.
Picture: Masa
Kekana/EWN.
CAPE TOWN - The
brother of a man
who died in police custody says he believes authorities are trying to cover-up the
circumstances around his brother’s death.
Police arrested
37-year-old Nadeem Khan in Rondebosch last week
on suspicion of selling a
stolen cellphone.
The father of
two was declared dead on arrival at the Rondebosch police station, a few minutes
away from where he was apprehended.
Amien Khan says
the cause of his brother’s death has not yet been determined but police have
told him a postmortem shows no definite signs of brutality.
“How is that
possible if he still has scarring on his face, his eyes are swollen and
scratches on his nose? To me it looks as if he was assaulted.”
Khan claims
police told him his brother was having difficulty breathing before he died.
He asked police
whether CPR was administered and was told they only unbuttoned the deceased’s
shirt.
“On reflecting,
I had a look at the photos and he wasn’t even wearing a shirt with buttons. He
was wearing a T-shirt and so she lied.”
The family has
confirmed Nadeem was trying to sell his own phone at the time of his arrest.
(Edited by
Winnie Theletsane)
