Lesotho: Setback for Eight Cops Facing Murder Charges

…as they lose the first leg of their bid to stop DPP from prosecuting them

Moorosi Tsiane

FORMER Leribe Criminal Investigation Division (CID) boss, Superintendent (Supt) ‘Mabohlokoa Makotoko, and her seven colleagues have suffered a major setback in their attempt to block Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Hlalefang Motinyane from charging them with the murder of three suspects who died in police custody in 2019.

This after Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane struck their constitutional application…