Laurance Makgotloe case postponed in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court for a formal bail application

The case against SAPS ballistics expert Laurance Makgotloe has been postponed to Thursday in the Pretoria Magistrates' Court for a formal bail application. The veteran forensic and ballistic analyst allegedly failed to link firearms used in the murder of Vereeniging engineer Armand Swart to at least thirty other high-profile murder and attempted murder cases.

Mokgotloe is facing charges of defeating the ends of justice and accessory after the fact to murder, for allegedly omitting crucial evidentiary information from a ballistic report — omissions police say could have allowed suspects linked to multiple violent crimes to evade prosecution. For more on this we cross live to our reporter Ofentse Setimo.

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