BERNARD MAKGABO NGOEPE
Can you maybe give a background to who the other officers you were with on that day?
INSP. DE LA REY: Chairperson, the investigation team was consisting of myself, members of the Murder and Robbery Unit in Bloemfontein as well as members of Murder and Robbery Unit in Welkom.
ADV. MTHEMBU: If Mr Chair can bear with me I can't find the translation in this . . .
ADV. DE JAGER: Mr De La Rey if you look to Page 13 of your statement you say that you introduce yourself to the suspect Mishek May and there you found a few things.
INSP. DE LA REY: Mr Chairperson that is correct. After the person introduced him as Mishek May I identified myself to him and then I asked him certain questions. Yes, I had a look and I found these things on him. Yes that is correct.
ADV. DE JAGER: And in the next paragraph it is said that certain things were handed to you by Sgt. van der Watt.
INSP. DE LA REY: That is correct.
ADV. DE JAGER: In Paragraph 17 you accompanied the suspects. Is that correct?
INSP. DE LA REY: Yes, that is correct.
ADV. DE JAGER: Then in Paragraph 19 certain articles were shown to you?
INSP. DE LA REY: Yes, that is correct.
ADV. DE JAGER: Was it found in a house?
INSP. DE LA REY: Yes, that is correct, that was in suspect No. 3's in his, the wife that lived with him, it was in her Grandmother's house.
ADV. DE JAGER: And after that you visited another house where you found another bag.
INSP. DE LA REY: That is correct, Chairperson, that was the home of accused No. 3's wife, or the wife that lived with him that was her parent's house.
ADV. DE JAGER: And you also found stuff like sweets and so forth? Now, what did you find in the vehicle, the motor vehicle?
INSP. DE LA REY: Mr Chairperson, if you look at Paragraph 25 of my statement there I put it out from Item 1 to 7, it was a brown bag with certain equipment then also an overall, a blue shirt, 4, a khaki shirt, 5 it was an Hitachi Sanding machine, 6 was a hammer and there was possible paint on the hammer and then also two keys with the name on it "Post" and "Store".
ADV. DE JAGER: And then also empty beer bottles that was also found.
INSP. DE LA REY: Yes, that is correct.
ADV. DE JAGER:  So none of the previous items where found in the motor vehicle.
INSP. DE LA REY: No, not at all Chairperson.
ADV. DE JAGER: The articles found in the motor vehicle, could you identify it. Were they possessions of the deceased - whom did they belong to?
INSP. DE LA REY: Chairperson, yes, I don't know what evidence is allowed but from the investigation it seemed that the clothing was the possession of the accused and the sanding machine and the hammer and the keys those were the property of the deceased.
ADV. DE JAGER: Was the motor vehicle locked or was it open?
INSP. DE LA REY: No, it was not locked.