By Nomava Nobumba
12 November 2009
The Mitchell’s Plain Community Policing Forum says police urgently needed to track down the killers of a local crime-fighter.
Mervyn Jacobs was gunned down while on patrol in Tafelsig last month.
Two gang members, Bradley Hess and Mario Abrahams, were arrested in connection with his death, but the charges against them were dropped in the local magistrate’s court yesterday due to a lack of evidence.
Community policing forum chairperson Michael Jacobs says its members were disappointed by the turn of events.
“We are quite shocked, but we say this is not the end,” he said.
Jacob says they will pursue the matter with the director of the public prosecutions in order to re-look at the case.
“Clearly there’s an element of corruption involve,” adds Jacobs.
12 November 2009
The Mitchell’s Plain Community Policing Forum says police urgently needed to track down the killers of a local crime-fighter.
Mervyn Jacobs was gunned down while on patrol in Tafelsig last month.
Two gang members, Bradley Hess and Mario Abrahams, were arrested in connection with his death, but the charges against them were dropped in the local magistrate’s court yesterday due to a lack of evidence.
Community policing forum chairperson Michael Jacobs says its members were disappointed by the turn of events.
“We are quite shocked, but we say this is not the end,” he said.
Jacob says they will pursue the matter with the director of the public prosecutions in order to re-look at the case.
“Clearly there’s an element of corruption involve,” adds Jacobs.
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