The trial surrounding the raze of South African soccer considerable person Senzo Meyiwa has taken a dramatic turn with allegations implicating Longwe Twala, the son of renowned music producer Sello “Chicco” Twala. Based mostly fully fully on recent court testimonies, Longwe is accused of fatally taking pictures Meyiwa on the evening of October 26, 2014.

Valid by the continuing trial on the Pretoria Excessive Court docket, imply Thulani Mngomezulu, representing Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya (one in all the accused), made the nice looking stutter that Longwe turn out to be to blame for Meyiwa’s death. This revelation emerged throughout the substandard-examination of Lt-Col Christian Mangena, a ballistic knowledgeable who had beforehand testified regarding the case.

Mngomezulu asserted that Longwe weak a .38 particular revolver, allegedly owned by his father Chicco, to shoot Meyiwa. Nevertheless, Mangena’s subsequent testimony forged doubt on this stutter. Mangena confirmed that the gun weak in the raze turn out to be examined and learned to be a 9mm parabellum semi-computerized pistol, no longer a revolver.

The controversy facilities on the proof supplied in court. Mngomezulu puzzled Mangena about a firearm license and a 9mm pistol received by the court on November 14, 2014. The license and firearm were fragment of the proof bag nonetheless were learned to be unrelated to the raze weapon after ballistic testing.

Mangena clarified that the distinguished motive of the firearm’s testing turn out to be to resolve if it turn out to be the weapon weak in the crime, now to no longer save its ownership. He acknowledged that the license’s owner and the firearm’s owner were no longer fragment of his investigation. No topic this, Mngomezulu maintained that the firearm belonged to Chicco Twala and suggested that the presence of Longwe on the crime scene linked him to the taking pictures.

Mangena and Mngomezulu had a stressful alternate over the ownership and use of the firearm. Mngomezulu argued that Chicco Twala’s firearm turn out to be no longer demonstrate on the crime scene and puzzled why a gun legally owned by Chicco turn out to be brought into the case if he turn out to be no longer on the scene. Mangena, nonetheless, insisted that he might perhaps presumably well even no longer verify the ownership of the firearm.

The allegations in opposition to Longwe Twala add one more layer of complexity to the continuing raze trial, which has been marked by a complete lot of twists and turns since Meyiwa’s death. The trial continues to captivate public attention as extra proof and testimonies come to light.