{"id":196836,"date":"2025-04-26T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-fate-of-murder-accused-police-officers-hangs-in-the-balance\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:38:12","slug":"lesotho-fate-of-murder-accused-police-officers-hangs-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-fate-of-murder-accused-police-officers-hangs-in-the-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Fate of Murder-Accused Police Officers Hangs in the Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Eight police officers accused of murdering three detainees will have to wait at least three months to learn their fate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">This follows Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane&#8217;s Tuesday decision to reserve judgment in a constitutional interdict application brought by the officers to try and halt their prosecution for murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">In February this year, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane, issued a directive for the prosecution of former Leribe Criminal Investigation Division (CID) boss&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504240053.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight police officers accused of murdering three detainees will have to wait at least three months to learn their fate. This follows Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane&#8217;s Tuesday decision to reserve judgment in a constitutional interdict application brought by the officers to try and halt their prosecution for murder. In February this year, the Director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,9848,13170,11795,4717,1407,12779,257,6749,662,254],"class_list":["post-196836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-balance","tag-fate","tag-hangs","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-murderaccused","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}