decisionundatedE000148
Officer pushes for early destruction of Aeroton cocaine before testing
An officer pushed for the urgent destruction or disposal of what was believed to be the Aeroton cocaine exhibits before FSL testing was complete. The stated justification was that the defence in any prosecution could request to physically inspect the exhibits during trial. Requests for FSL to advise on destruction procedure were made. This is the key misconduct allegation for Heist 2.
7 claims from testimony
"someone was pushing for the urgent destruction or disposal of what was believed to be Cocaine"
"Reason being, throughout the court case, the Defence can ask to actually see these exhibits"
"FSL Pretoria was able to dispose of the exhibits"
"please, can you make that we can destroy these things?"
"have you ever requested FSL to enquire from FSL how to go about destroying exhibits if they take time to make storage available for your exhibits"
"I have, due to correspondence in matters that I have, and it was requested to me that I correspond, that I can move exhibits to them for destruction. Yes, I have"
"Not for you to move exhibits to them for destruction, where you are asking them how you can destroy drugs"