LISTEN | Suspect in Senzo Meyiwa murder will be moved from C ...
The Pretoria high court has ordered that Mthobisi Prince Mncube be moved from the maximum-security section of the Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre in Pretoria to another facility.
Mncube, one of five men on trial for the murder of footballer Senzo Meyiwa, said he had been incarcerated in the maximum-security section of the prison since December 2020. He said his continued incarceration in “solitary confinement” affected his right to a fair trial and he had suffered an emotional breakdown last month.
Judge Jan Swanepoel ruled on Tuesday he should be relocated to either his centre of origin, which is Johannesburg's Sun City prison, or another suitable maximum-security centre.
“The fact that a person is awaiting trial in a so-called 'high profile' or 'critical' case is not, in terms of the standard operating procedures, a basis for the indefinite incarceration of that person in C-Max,” he said.
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