Victor Majola appears in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court for his bail application in the Warrick ‘DJ Warras’ Stock murder case on 16 January 2025. Picture: Gallo Images The Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court has postponed Victor Mthethwa Majola’s application for bail. Majola returned to the court on Friday, where his attorney, Dumisani Mabunda, and the state presented their closing arguments.
Stock wasfatally shoton 16 December outside a building near the Carlton Centre in Johannesburg’s central business district (CBD). Police arrested the 44-year-old Majola on 22 December, and he is facing a schedule 6 offence of premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit murder. On Friday, Mabunda played video footage in court and argued it proved that Majola was in no way connected to the incident.
According to the narrator of the video, the incident occurred at approximately midday, and the defence has argued that Majola was in Soweto at that time. “This time that the reporter is talking about, as much as this video footage doesn’t show time, the court has already accepted Exhibit E as evidence, which says the accused was in Soweto at that time. “And further to that, besides the issue of what the reporter says, looking into the footage itself, it is not clearly visible as to who is who in the footage.
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“This report indicates that the shooter in this incident is the gentleman who is wearing a red T-shirt and blue floral shorts, and a cap. “In this court, we’re made to believe or told, or there’s evidence rather, that the shooter had dreadlocks. And looking at that particular footage, it doesn’t show anyone with dreadlocks.
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