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Suspended National Deputy Police Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya.
The Madlanga Commission has heard how suspended deputy national police commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya interfered with the investigations of the 121 dockets. This is according to evidence leader Adv Adil Hassim SC who is cross-examining General Sibiya at the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria on Friday.
Various witnesses at the Commission have testified how the seizure of the 121 dockets of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) resulted in investigations being delayed.
Adv Hassim put it to Sibiya that the delay in investigations constituted serious interference in the administration of justice.
“I’m just saying, as an objective fact, what happened here was very serious and it constituted interference with the investigation of active cases. I failed to reconcile the fact that the evidence leader ignores the fact that these dockets were not being investigated since 2018. For a very long time, they were not. But even when you compare three to five years to three months, and you find three months to be the travesty of justice.”
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Justice Madlanga has put it to Sibiya that no further investigations could be carried out on the dockets as they were stored in a repository where detectives could not access them.
“Do you accept that this was meaningless because storage of the dockets automatically meant that investigations had to come to a halt? Put differently, disruption of investigations was inevitable. Do you accept that? No, Chair.”
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