Innocent
people arrested: Cops in South Africa often arrest innocent victims of crimes,
fabricate evidence
17:15 Oct 2
2015 Garsfontein
SA Police Service, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
Cops in South Africa
often arrest innocent victims of violent crimes and fabricate evidence to
convict them: examples:
After a year in prison Parktown North businessman Dieter Bergs was finally found innocent of murder & set free. Dieter Bergs spent a year being accused of murdering his wife but instead she was murdered by black home-invaders. The police failed to investigate all the available evidence at the murder scene because they had already arrested the white man, who then had to 'prove his innocence...' Dieter Bergs was finally found innocent of murder & set free.
After a year in prison Parktown North businessman Dieter Bergs was finally found innocent of murder & set free. Dieter Bergs spent a year being accused of murdering his wife but instead she was murdered by black home-invaders. The police failed to investigate all the available evidence at the murder scene because they had already arrested the white man, who then had to 'prove his innocence...' Dieter Bergs was finally found innocent of murder & set free.
Sept 20 2015 Johannesburg businessman Dieter Bergs, 79, was acquited on charges of killing his wife Genét by the Johannesburg Magistrates Court. The elderly man spent a year in limbo: accused of murder even though his wife was murdered by armed blacks during a home invasion in their Parktown North home.
Now the SAPS faces questions not only around the reliability of its ballistics
laboratory but also over whether it deliberately covered up the botched job.The
police didn’t respond to questions on this.“The damage and defamation done as a
result of that has been horrific,” said Bergs, who turns 80 on Sunday.Geneé
Bergs, 70, was shot dead in bed in their Parktown North home in March last
year. They had been married for 15 years.Bergs told police he had been in the
study and his wife was asleep when he heard two loud bangs.
When he went to
investigate, he saw an intruder. He ran after the man and was shot in the
hip.There were two guns in the house, both 7.65mm pistols – one that Bergs had
borrowed from a friend for protection and was kept next to the bed, and one
he’d acquired legally in 1976, but had lost and forgotten about.In late April
last year, Geneé’s family found Bergs’s 1976 gun in the house and handed it to
the police. SAPS forensic analyst Warrant Officer Thabo Seanego compared it to
the two spent cartridges – a 7.65mm spent bullet and a fragment of a fired
bullet jacket found at the murder scene.
Seanego’s affidavit
said that while the spent bullet and fragment couldn’t be linked to anything,
the cartridge cases from the crime scene had been fired by Bergs’s
gun.Seanego’s report was the case against Bergs.On September 23, Bergs was
arrested and charged with his wife’s murder.
He was released on
bail of R10 000, and the next day, a gardener found a gun in the Bergs’s
garden. This was the borrowed gun that was kept near the bed.Seanego inspected
this second gun and the crime scene evidence, and concluded that neither spent
bullet nor fragment was fired from this gun.But he didn’t mention the crucial
evidence – the two spent cartridge cases.Bergs’s lawyer, Joburg attorney Ian
Small-Smith, a consultant to BDK Attorneys, brought in independent forensic
ballistics expert Wollie Wolmarans.After weeks of haggling with police, Wolmarans
was able to get Bergs’s legal 1976 gun to compare with the crime scene
exhibits, under the watch of police expert Lieutenant-Colonel Lucas Visser, who
conducted his own tests.
Both Wolmarans and
Visser unequivocally ruled out Bergs’s gun as the murder weapon.
“There was not even
the faintest idea that these exhibits could have been fired from the same gun
as in their tests and my tests. There were not even likenesses,” said
Wolmarans. “It’s the worst I’ve ever had.”Both also concluded that someone had
tampered with the second firearm.Wolmarans wasn’t allowed access to the second
gun, but saw the spent cartridges from the tests on it, while Visser’s report
lists six points of damage – in other words tampering – on that weapon.That
damage wasn’t in Seanego’s report.“It wasn’t even mentioned that there was any
damage to the gun. That’s why we say there was some cover-up,” said BDK
attorney Johan Eksteen.
Wolmarans claimed the tampering was done by someone with more than a lay person’s knowledge.BDK attorney Piet du Plessis said: “This could have had damning consequences for Dieter. Can you imagine if we still had the death penalty?“The worst is that, having made the mistake, they kept quiet about it and it was left to us to discover.”Bergs plans to move to the Cape.
“I lost my first wife after 37 years of marriage to cancer. I then married Geneé five years later. She has died. My daughter died five years ago. It has been a heavy time,” he said.Bergs said he has survived due to his own “wonderful” family and friends, although Geneé’s family believed throughout that he was the killer and still don’t speak to him.
He doesn’t know if the police will ever find Geneé’s killer. “I hope they will.”
http://mobi.iol.co.za/#!/article/nightmare-ordeal-was-cop-bungle-1.1919371
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