Court to hear more testimony in alleged crime boss Booysen’s murder

The High Court in Cape Town.

The cross-examination of the state expert in the trial of alleged underworld boss, Jerome Booysen and eleven others, is expected to continue in the High Court in Cape Town on Tuesday.

The state had earlier led evidence on the intercepted cellphone records of murder accused Booysen from 2016. At the time, police were investigating the violence between gangs over the control of security at nightclubs in Cape Town.

In the trial-within-a-trial in the murder case of alleged international steroid smuggler Brian Wainstein, the defence is objecting to the admissibility of the phone records.

The state had also wanted the identity of the expert, Polycarpus Maserumule, to be protected.

Judge Vincent Saldanha explains, “The revealing of his identity does not affect his work. Only if he was a police officer or a member of crime intelligence, or an informer. Can you imagine if every witness came to this or any other court and said, ‘We don’t want our names published’, never heard it before. That is refused.”

[WATCH] The Prosecution in the case against alleged underworld crime boss Jerome Booysen and 11 others has called an expert from the State Security Agency, where cellphone call interception takes place. That’s as the trial-within-a-trial continues at the Western Cape High Court,… pic.twitter.com/tRO3CnuJcW

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