Meyiwa murder trial: State witness to face questions on call records of alleged gunman
A forensic supervisor from Vodacom, who has been testifying for over a month on cellphone data that the State believes proves the involvement of the five men standing trial, is under cross-examination in the Pretoria High Court.
The witness stand at the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial taken on on 15 May 2023. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News
JOHANNESBURG - A State witness in the Senzo Meyiwa trial will face questions on Tuesday on the call records of the alleged gunman who shot the football star.
Pinky Vythilingam, a forensic supervisor from Vodacom is under cross-examination in the Pretoria High Court.
She has been testifying for over a month on cellphone data that the State believes proves the involvement of the five men standing trial in the 2014 murder of Meyiwa.
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According to the evidence presented by Vythilingam, the phone linked to the third accused – Mthobiso Mncube – was pinging at a cellphone tower in Vosloorus on the day Meyiwa was killed.
This corroborates evidence given by State witness Sizwe Zungu, who told the court that Mncube and his four co-accused were at the Basotho hostel in Vosloorus, and they all disappeared around the time the football star was killed.
Mncube has also been implicated by his co-accused Bongani Ntanzi in an alleged phone call that he received from singer Kelly Khumalo, who was Meyiwa’s girlfriend at the time.
According to Ntanzi, Khumalo organised the men to murder Meyiwa – a version that all the men have now vehemently denied.
Mncube’s lawyer, Advocate Charles Mnisi, has promised a lengthy cross-examination of Vythilingam on Tuesday as he sets out to challenge all the evidence led against his client.