Eleven AGU cops in the dock at Athlone Magistrates Court all wearing faces masks. Eleven Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) accused of murdering an alleged gangster claim that the State is “feeding them to the wolves” after they received threats from inmates in Pollsmoor. The cops, who may not be identified as per court ruling, returned to the Athlone Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, which saw the courtroom packed with supporters for the police members and the deceased.
They stand accused of kidnapping, torturing and killing alleged Clever Kidz gangster Wade Price from Manenberg on December 4 following an interrogation of a shooting incident that occurred outside the same court the previous day. The investigating officer in the matter said in his affidavit that the accused knew that Price and his friends were affiliated with the CKs gang and decided to take them into a rival gang area where they allegedly “showed off” the deceased and his friends being captured or in their “custody” in the “Hard Livings” territory. The four were then taken to Manenberg SAPS where CCTV footage showed them entering the building with the accused, which is consistent with what the friends of Price said in their statements. Three were later released from the station, however Price was taken to a property in Vygekraal Road where the accused allegedly unlawfully and intentionally killed him by hitting him multiple times with unknown objects on his head and body, torturing the deceased and smothered/choked him to death.
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