CARMEL RICKARD: Police fail in legal duty to protect
The Mthatha high court has dismissed police claims as ‘disingenuous’ and ‘outrageous’, finding instead that they were negligent in preventing horrific crimes against an Eastern Cape family
11 August 2022 - 05:00
The high court in Mthatha has just decided a case which powerfully brings to mind the looting and killing in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng that shocked SA last year. That’s because both create a deep sense of alarm at police inaction.
The Mthatha court was considering whether police were negligent “in their legal duty of crime prevention” by not taking steps that would have prevented horrific crimes against Tryishile Sitali and his family...
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