By Johnathan Paoli
The Madlanga Commission on Tuesday heard fresh evidence of irregularities in the initial ballistic report concerning firearms linked to the murder of Q Tech engineer Armand Swart – the same weapons allegedly used in the killings of musicians Oupa “DJ Sumbody” Sefoka and Hector “DJ Vintos” Buthelezi.
Testifying remotely due to training commitments, Captain Solomon Modisane, a senior forensic analyst at the South African Police Service (SAPS) Forensic Science Laboratory, told the commission that his analysis revealed a “common origin” between cartridge cases recovered at the four separate murder scenes.
Modisane was being questioned by Advocate Thabang Pooe.
“The same AK-47 was used in all these murders,” he said.
Modisane added that 9mm Parabellum cartridges recovered at the DJ Vintos scene were fired from the same Taurus pistol, with an obliterated serial number, later linked to the Swart killing.
The discovery directly connects the firearms used to
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