Mdluli state funding for lawyers fees declined

The State has declined a request for financial assistance by crime intelligence boss Lt-Gen Richard Mdluli, his attorney said on Monday at an inquest hearing into a 13-year-old murder case.

"I am disappointed to inform the court that we received a written reply to say that the application for State funding has been declined," Ike Motloung told the Boksburg Magistrate's Court.

"I already have instructions at looking at the possibility of taking the decision on review."

Criminal charges against Mdluli and his accomplices, Samuel Dlomo, Col Nkosana Sebastian Ximba, and Lt-Col Mtunzi-Omhle Mthembeni Mtunzi were provisionally withdrawn in February, pending the outcome of the inquest proceeding.

The initial charges against them were intimidation, kidnapping, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit murder. The charges related to the killing of Mdluli's ex-lover's husband Oupa Ramogibe in 1999. At the time of the crime, Mdluli was branch commander of the Vosloorus police station.