BERNARD MAKGABO NGOEPE
Thank you Mr Chairperson. Inspector, I will take you paragraph by paragraph in according with you statement. I will start from paragraph 8.
	No at the time when you entered House No. 1663, D Section are you certain that there were no people in the yard as well as in the house?
INSP. DE LA REY: Yes, that is correct. There was no-one except for a young boy,  he was a scholar,  he was outside of the house and there was no-one within the house.
ADV. MTHEMBU: Or more a less, could you estimate how old was this scholar that you found in the yard?
INSP. DE LA REY: If I can remember correctly, it was in the region of 10 or 12 years.
ADV. MTHEMBU: And did you enquire from him if there were people in the house or not?
INSP. DE LA REY: The house was not locked, I went through the house and then I found myself that there was no-one there.
ADV. MTHEMBU: The question is, did you enquire from the scholar if there was any person in the house or not?
INSP. DE LA REY: That is correct, he said that there wasn't anyone in the house and then I just made sure for myself that there wasn't anyone.
ADV. MTHEMBU: Why did you say in your statement that "I enquired from the scholar if there was anyone in the house and he said no and then I proceeded to inspect the house myself"?
INSP. DE LA REY: Can you please repeat the question, I don't understand it.
ADV. MTHEMBU: I am saying why is it contained in your statement that "I enquired from a scholar that I found in the yard if there was anyone in the house or not"?
INSP. DE LA REY: At that stage I didn't mention it in my statement because I didn't think it was important because it was a child who was a minor.
ADV. MTHEMBU: Because accused No. 1's version is that when you arrived at House No. 1663 that he was in the yard in the company of two other persons, do you have any comment to make with that statement?
INSP. DE LA REY: That is correct. Accused No. 1 was not on the property of the concerned house, later during the investigation I established he was noticed some distance from the house where he was standing with some other persons.
ADV. MTHEMBU: In paragraph 11, you say that Sgt. Constable Yankee shouted that there were persons who were running away and you say that one of these people or persons that were running away was accused No. 1, Mr May. On what basis do you make that statement or assumption if you say accused No. 1 was standing with two other people at a distance from the house?
INSP. DE LA REY: Mr Chairperson, after Sgt. Jantjie had alarmed me, some of the people, the bystanders stopped accused No. 1 and arrested him, they handed him over to me and later Jantjie identified accused No. 1 as one of the persons who he had been seen to have run away.
ADV. MTHEMBU: Is it correct that when you arrived at this house that you drove inside the yard with your motor vehicle?
INSP. DE LA REY: At that point the vehicle which I was using was one loaned by a Constable Jantjie, my vehicle was definitely not inside the yard, but it is possible that some of the vehicles of other members could have been in the yard at the time.