The bail application by student constable Sipho Mbatha, accused of shooting dead a Soweto teenager, started after a short delay in the Roodepoort Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
The case only got underway around 10.30am. This was after Magistrate Deliza Smith said she had decided on her ruling, but had forgotten the papers at home and needed to fetch them.
Smith is expected to decide if 41-year-old Mbatha will be granted bail. Mbatha allegedly killed 16-year-old Thato Mokoka in Braamfischerville Phase Two, Soweto, on February 14.
The teenager was shot three times with an R5 rifle, while lying on the ground on his stomach outside his grandmother Sybil Mokoka's home.
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