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Meyiwa murder trial | State claims Bongani Ntanzi is contradicting himself

State claims Bongani Ntanzi is contradicting himself 1

PRETORIA - Accused two in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial insists police wrote a confession on his behalf and all he did was sign.

WATCH | Meyiwa murder-accused continues testimony

Bongani Ntanzi faced another gruelling cross-examination in the trial-within-a-trial that's looking to establish the admissibility of his confession statement.

Ntanzi allegedly made two confessions in June 2020, but insists those are not his words.

Instead, he claims police tortured him into signing documents he did not know.

Ntanzi and accused one insist their so-called confessions were not made freely and voluntarily.

Bongani Ntanzi maintains that he didn't make a confession on 19 June at the Moroka Police Station.

Instead he says he was tortured by police into signing an already prepared statement.

And this, he says, happened in the presence of the lead investigating officer.

But the state pushed on.

Ntanzi was also confronted with entries from a Primrose Police station occurrence book, where he was later detained.

The trial within a trial continues. 

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