Case against terror-accused Thulsie twins postponed to April
The case was postponed to allow the state to collect evidence from other countries, including the US and Britain.
Community members gather in support, 25 August 2016, at the Johannesburg Magistrates court in the CBD, of Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie. The pair appeared for their formal bail application and are accused of plotting terrorist attacks in South Africa. Picture: Alaister Russell
The Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court has granted the state another postponement, delaying the start of the terrorism trial of twin brothers, Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie.
The question before court was whether the application by the state for a further postponement was unreasonable. On Wednesday, Magistrate Pieter du Plessis ruled in favour of the application for a three-month postponement for the state to collect evidence from other countries‚ including the US‚ Turkey, Britain‚ Kenya and Syria.
It emerged in court that South African investigators would meet agents in the US in March.
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The siblings will have spent 10 months in custody when the state is expected to present its full indictment on April 25.
The two were arrested in July last year after their homes were raided on suspicion that they were planning to bomb the US embassy in Pretoria and Jewish institutions in the province.
Last week, it emerged that the state was investigating links between the recent terrorism-related arrests of two suspects in Kenya and Britain and the Thulsie twins. Prosecutor Chris MacAdam told the court that evidence in those cases allegedly linked the twins to the cases.
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