A police Constable, Thabiso Kubyane who was based at the Local Criminal Records Centre in Sandton and another civilian employee, Petrus Danyscam from the Linden police station will go on trial in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court near Alexandra on the 2 December 2014 for defeating the ends of justice.
The 32 year old Constable had been working as a crime scene expert in the Johannesburg area also faces an additional charge of possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition which he allegedly took from the SAP 13 store at Linden SAPS.
Kubyane is alleged to have attended crime scenes since January this year but allegedly failed to register the results into the exhibit register and allegedly failed to process the necessary reports as he was supposed to have done.
When it was time for those exhibits to be used as evidence in court he was unable to. This led a team of investigators from the National Investigation Unit to the Constables room in the police barracks. His room was searched and exhibits and crime scene reports, which were not processed, and never entered into any of the relevant registers, were found there.
The team also found two firearms in the Constable’s room which they later discovered were supposed to have been stored as exhibits at the Linden SAPS store. There were no entries made in official registers by the clerk of the store, Petrus Danyscam, as to how the pistol and the revolver left his storage.
Also, Kubyane could not give a proper explanation why he was in possession of the firearms. The investigation team also found about several bullets of R1, R5 and 9mm calibre in Kubyane’s safe.
Kubyane is currently out on R10 0000,00 bail and Danyscam 33, who was arrested in September is out on warning.
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