Police lied about checking cell where mutilated teen was killed: Ipid

21 July 2016 - 12:43
By Deneesha Pillay

If police had done their jobs properly and checked the holding cells‚ the gruesome death of a teenager whose face was mutilated could have been prevented.The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid)‚ which conducted an investigation into circumstances around the death last month of 18-year-old Gerdo Karelse‚ has found that police lied about checking on two men sharing a holding cell in Beaufort West.

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