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No warrants for photographers

2002-02-05 13:05

Cape Town - The Cape High Court declined to authorise warrants for the arrest of photographers Benny Gool and Christo Lötter on Tuesday.

Warrants for the arrests were requested on Monday in the Rashaad Staggie murder trial by the prosecution team Jannie van Vuuren and Piet Steyn, for allegedly ignoring subpoenas to attend the trial and testify.

Four members of the People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) - national co-ordinator Abdus-Salaam Ebrahim, security chief Salie Abader, Pagad member Moegsien Mohamed and Abdur-Razaak Ebrahim - are facing charges in connection with the murder of Staggie.

Staggie was shot and set alight when he was confronted by an angry mob as he alighted from his vehicle in front of his Salt River, Cape Town home in August 1996.

Judge John Foxcroft said he had not yet read the volumes of documents delivered to his office by counsel for both photographers.

The documents related to a media application for the subpoenas, compelling the two photographers to attend court and testify, to be set aside.

Application not 'bad in law'

The judge rejected a contention by Van Vuuren that the application was of a civil nature and had no place in a criminal trial, and was therefore bad in law.

He said he wished to postpone the case to Monday to read the documents which run to about 700 pages for each photographer.

A further hitch developed when counsel Paul Eia for three of the four accused contended that the judge should not read the application document.

Eia contended that the documents contained information detrimental to his three clients, which was not yet evidence before the court.

The court adjourned briefly for Eia to discuss the ramifications of this with his clients.

Although the judge on Monday demanded an explanation for the failure of the accused to be present in court, he did not insist on the explanation in court when the hearing continued on Tuesday.

It is understood that the prosecution team explained to the judge in chambers on Tuesday what the difficulties were in transporting the accused from prison to court, but no explanation of this was given in court.

- SAPA

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