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Ballistics expert testifies - AKA trial · Drive with John Perlman

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  Speaker 1: You're with John Perlman on 702. Right, let's focus our
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  Speaker 1: attention on the courts now. First of all, we go
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  Speaker 1: down to KZN to Durban. To be precise, this is
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  Speaker 1: where six men stand trial for the murders. of the
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  Speaker 1: rapper Kiernan, a.k.a. Forbes, and his friend, Tibelo Tibs Mutswane.
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  Speaker 1: It's all taking place in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get the very latest details then from Tabiso Gorbo, who's
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  Speaker 1: watching this for EWN and for us right here on
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  Speaker 1: 702 Drive. Tabiso, very good afternoon to you. Ballistics, as
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  Speaker 1: I understand it, very much front and center today. Who's
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  Speaker 1: been giving evidence and what have they told us?
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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon, John. Yes, a staffs ballistic expert, the name
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  Speaker 2: of Mr. Warrant Officer Rowan Kedar. So he has been
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  Speaker 2: testifying around his analysis. of the six cartridges that were
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  Speaker 2: found on the 10th of February outside the Wish restaurant
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  Speaker 2: on Florida Road. This is where, obviously, Mr. A.K.A. Forbes
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  Speaker 2: and his chef friend, Mr. Tim Motwane, were killed. What
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  Speaker 2: we found out, John, is that there was obviously six
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  Speaker 2: cartridges Bullets that were used in the commission of the crime,
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  Speaker 2: they came from two different firearms. Now, what Mr. Wayne
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  Speaker 2: testified in court is that they took the six cartridges
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  Speaker 2: and they obviously ran it through the ballistics system. And
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  Speaker 2: what they found is that some of the cartridges, they
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  Speaker 2: can actually link them to at least five other cases
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  Speaker 2: dating back to about 2019. And you remember, John, that
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  Speaker 2: there was a firearm that was seized by the police
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  Speaker 2: from accused number three. That firearm can also be linked.
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  Speaker 2: There was also a linkage of that firearm to both
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  Speaker 2: the cartridges that were found in the AKA Tibbs murder case.
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  Speaker 2: but also to an incident that happened in May 2022
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  Speaker 2: of a taxi boss here in Durban by the name
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  Speaker 2: of Gift Kanyile, who was also killed in a similar
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  Speaker 2: style where he was shot and killed and was ambushed
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  Speaker 2: while with his bodyguards and family. So that's what we
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  Speaker 2: found out, John, about the ballistics, saying that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like that these guns that were used to
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  Speaker 2: kill Tibbs and Mr. Motwane had been used... in other
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  Speaker 2: commissions of crime, giving a bit of credence or a
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  Speaker 2: bit of evidence to the state version that the men
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  Speaker 2: accused of killing Mr. Forbes and Mr. Mutswane were hit
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  Speaker 2: men for hire.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Tabiso Gorba still watching that case.
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  Speaker 1: Updates from Tabiso as soon as there's more news to report.