By Johnathan Paoli
Police captain Laurance Makgotloe remained in the hot seat after lunch at the Madlanga Commission on Monday over four errors in a ballistics report linked to the murder of Armand Swart, with evidence leaders as well as the commissioners questioning whether the mistakes were innocent or indicative of an attempt to undermine the investigation.
Testifying after the lunch adjournment, Makgotloe was led by the commission’s evidence leader, advocate Teboho Mosikili, and later questioned by commissioner Sandile Khumalo, who put it to the witness that the errors were material and potentially fatal to the prosecution’s case.
Khumalo reminded commission that Witnesses A and B had testified that Makgotloe informed them the firearms linked to the Swart murder were connected to 18 other cases.
Makgotloe denied this, insisting he did not have access to Integrated Ballistic Identification System (IBIS) data at the time and therefore “could not have said
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