UPDATE: St Lucia dagga suspect released

THE person arrested in connection with the St Lucia dagga bust last month was released by the Public Prosecutor at Mtubatuba Magistrate’s Court, pending further investigation.

‘The case was not enrolled at court owing to pending investigations, and the suspects were released,’ said Major Thulani Zwane of the SAPS KZN Media Centre. ‘The suspects will be recalled once the investigation has been finalised and the case will then be enrolled at court.’

According to Mtubatuba police officers, the Public Prosecutor could not enroll the case in the absence of a SAP 13 exhibit register number, which police officers argue had been included on the docket.

Investigations are now complete and the docket has been returned to the magistrate’s court.

The house burglary case, which police officers initially thought had been carried out by the dagga suspect and one other, is still under investigation.

After spending two nights in the holding cells at Mtubatuba Police Station, reportedly with dangerous criminals whose intentions were questionable, none of the charges against the two suspects held, and both were released.

‘On the night in question, we were on our way home and decided to take a detour to look for hippos,’ said one of the two in an interview after their release.

‘We then saw a man running across the road with a backpack and chased him, thinking he was a criminal.

‘We hit him by accident and the driver went to the police station to report the incident,’ he said.

The man who was hit alleges the two who hit him had been involved in the burglary at the house he was looking after, but fingerprints are yet to confirm this.

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