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A high-profile forensic testimony has dealt a significant blow to the defence in the long, drawn-out trial of nine soldiers accused of murdering former Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) commander, Lieutenant General (Lt-Gen) Maaparankoe Mahao.<\/p>\n
A South African Police Service (SAPS) ballistic expert, Lieutenant Colonel (Lt-Col) Christine Mangena, told presiding Judge Charles Hungwe this week that forensic evidence showed Lt-Gen Mahao was seated behind the steering wheel of his vehicle, with both hands on…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> A high-profile forensic testimony has dealt a significant blow to the defence in the long, drawn-out trial of nine soldiers accused of murdering former Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) commander, Lieutenant General (Lt-Gen) Maaparankoe Mahao. A South African Police Service (SAPS) ballistic expert, Lieutenant Colonel (Lt-Col) Christine Mangena, told presiding Judge Charles Hungwe this week that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201348,"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":[258,256,7013,19693,8936,4717,1407,20142,304,257,18798,254,6564],"class_list":["post-201347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-evidence","tag-forensic","tag-fresh","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mahao","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-rattles","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"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\/201347","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=201347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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