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Three police officers have emerged after the death of 16-year-old Nathaniel Julies.
- A police officer who admitted to firing the shot that killed Nathaniel Julies has received 45 death threats, the Protea Magistrates Court has heard.
- Caylene Whiteboy claimed to have received threats from Eldorado Park drug lords and her co-defendant and colleague, Sergeant Simon Scorpion Ndyalvane.
- Whiteboy is currently in a safe place.
A police officer who confessed to firing the shot that killed Nathaniel Julies told Protea Magistrates Court that he received 45 death threats.
Sgt Caylene Whiteboy, 23, told the court Wednesday that the death threats came from Eldorado Park drug lords and his co-defendant and colleague, Sergeant Simon Scorpion Ndyalvane, 46.
He said his life has been at risk since he started working at Eldorado Park.
She is being held in a safe place, rather than in prison, after a court granted the prosecution and investigators from the Independent Police Investigations Directorate (IPID) permission to keep her there.
“They dragged her to make a confession statement. The State has no basis to continue asking the court to deny her bail. This is very serious,” her attorney, Jeff Maluleke, told the court.
She said Eldorado Park Police management did nothing to intervene when she was threatened.
Maluleke said there were three other police officers who were with Whiteboy and Ndyalvane when a gun loaded with prohibited live ammunition was used to shoot Julies.
The court previously heard that Ndyalvane reserved the shotgun outside the police station without police-issued ammunition. The third co-defendant, Detective Sergeant Foster Netshongolo, 37, was not present when the crime was committed.
“The other three officers are not present in court and we do not have their statement in court. The state is sensationalizing and not strengthening their case. It amounts to endangering the accused,” Maluleke said.
Prosecutor Mzwandile Mrwabe previously told the court that there was evidence that Ndyalvane had threatened to kill Whiteboy if he did not cooperate with him.
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Ndyalvane allegedly gave Whiteboy a statement, instructing him to exonerate him and confess that he acted alone when he shot Julies, the court heard.
“Ndyalvane has been threatening to kill her and we have that evidence. The reason she is being held in a safe place is because a different court advised us to do so,” Mrwabe said.
The defendants have been charged with killing 16-year-old Julies last month and tampering with the crime scene in an attempt to cover it up.
The hearing continues.
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