THE three cops accused of killing Nateniel Julies will be back in the high court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court in Ekurhuleni on Thursday, 2 May.
The three former Eldorado Park cops, Constable Caylene Whiteboy, Sergeant Simon "Scorpion" Ndyalvane and Detective Sergeant Voster Netshiongolo are accused of shooting and killing Nateniel in Eldorado Park, south of Joburg on 26 August 2020.
While being cross-examined by state prosecutor, Advocate Johan Badenhorst during her last appearance on 19 April, Whiteboy alleged that the police tampered with the crime scene.
Badenhorst showed Whiteboy photos taken in the first week of September 2020, six days after the incident happened. The photos showed Hillbrow Flats in Eldorado Park, where Nateniel was shot and the position of the truck.
Whiteboy looked at the photos and responded: “The truck is moved close to the fence of the Hillbrow Flats. It was never standing there.
“There's a car in between the flats and the truck. It was never there, the truck itself was standing close to the flats in the second windows, the last two windows of the flats. This is not how the crime scene looked that night. Then I can’t comment,” said Whiteboy.
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Badenhorst said Whiteboy aimed to shoot the deceased. “Ms Whiteboy, that’s why I put it to you that at the time you pulled the trigger, that barrel was aiming directly at the deceased,” said Badenhorst.
Whiteboy shook her head and responded that she disagreed.
Badenhorst asked Whiteboy if she could look out of the van window, if she could see the deceased and she responded yes.
“The same window you could look straight to the deceased, knowing there was a human being on the other side of that window, you chose to fire this weapon in the way you were never trained to fire it,” said Badenhorst.
Whiteboy responded: “I didn’t know there’s live ammunition and how was I supposed to know someone who died?"
