A magistrate’s court hears that police informant Wiandre Pretorius takes his own life after a DNA report places him at the bedroom where Emmanuel Mbense is killed. An IPID investigator tells the Brakpan Magistrates’ Court that Pretorius learns of the DNA evidence and later dies by suicide.
The report discussed in court is presented as a key development in the Mbense case, because it is described as linking Pretorius to the location of the killing. The proceedings focus on events leading up to his death and the circumstances surrounding it, with testimony centering on the impact of the DNA findings. Coverage is limited to the court account of the incident described, rather than presenting competing factual explanations for Pretorius’s actions.
