The Thulsie twins’ defence team is to bring an urgent high court application to overturn Monday’s decision by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court that their arrests were legal.Magistrate Pieter du Plessis ruled on Monday morning that the arrest of 24-year-old Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie was lawful.For weeks the twins’ lawyer Annelene van der Heever has fought to have their arrests last month declared unlawful as they were made without arrest warrants.The brothers were arrested when police obtained a search warrant and raided their homes in Newclare, west of Johannesburg.The twins were arrested for allegedly planning to attack Jewish and US interests in SA. They are also accused of planning to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS).Reading out his decision‚ Du Plessis said the police had reasonable suspicion to effect an arrest.READ THIS: Photos of apparent rifle and bomb belt found on Thulsie twins’ devicesThe photographs were submitted in court on Friday, and also inc...
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