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The smashed windscreen of the Mercedes-Benz after being hit by a concrete slab allegedly hurled from the Candella Road Bridge on the N3, which killed a passenger in the car.<\/p>\n
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The lawyer of two of the |accused on trial for murdering a passenger in a car by throwing a slab of concrete off an overhead bridge on the N3 told the Durban Regional Court yesterday that it was the third accused, a 16-year-old boy, who committed the crime. <\/p>\n
This emerged when defence lawyer Mohamed Hassim, who is representing Lucky Leon Khumalo and the 17-year-old, was cross-examining the State\u2019s witness, Thandeka Faith Ngema, a Durban metro police constable. <\/p>\n
Khumalo, 18, and the two minors, 16 and 17, are on trial for killing Siphesihle Zola Zuma, 24, on November 2, 2010. She was a passenger in a car driven by a colleague, Gertrude Mankaba. <\/p>\n
The women were on the N3 when the vehicle\u2019s windscreen was shattered by a concrete block thrown from a bridge. Zuma died in hospital the same evening from her injuries. <\/p>\n
During the policewoman\u2019s testimony, she said she saw two boys throwing stones, while Khumalo was standing with them, watching. <\/p>\n
However, the youngest accused\u2019s lawyer, Clive Muthwa, said the boy would testify that all three of them had been nowhere near the place where the crime was committed. <\/p>\n
Ngema said: \u201cI saw accused two [the 17-year-old] leaning against the bridge\u2019s barrier and throwing a stone. It was becoming dark, but overhead lights and street lights made their faces visible. I shouted at them, and two [accused one and two] ran away, while |accused three [the 16-year-old] threw another stone before he also ran away,\u201d said Ngema. <\/p>\n
Ngema, who lives in the same area of Chesterville as the three accused, said she had known the boys since 2005. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was in my house when my neighbour, Navin Nagdutt, came to tell me that he had seen young men throwing stones on to the freeway. I went with him to his yard, where I saw this happening,\u201d said Ngema. <\/p>\n
She said she was standing inside Nagdutt\u2019s property, a short distance from the bridge where the stones were thrown. <\/p>\n
She and Nagdutt got into their cars and chased the boys. They were later joined by a taxi driver, Kandroyem Solomon, who was the first to testify yesterday. However, the teenagers disappeared into bush. <\/p>\n
Hassim said Nagdutt had testified that he went to tell Ngema about the stone-throwing evidence and described what the accused were wearing. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want to put it to you that you never saw the accused throwing stones. You could only identify them through what Navin told you they were wearing,\u201d said Hassim. <\/p>\n
Hassim said his clients would testify that when Ngema saw them, the 16-year-old was throwing stones at his friends. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey would also say that accused three [the 16-year-old] then lifted a concrete slab and threw it over the bridge,\u201d Hassim said. <\/p>\n
The trial was adjourned to October 17. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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