With help from the Wits Justice Project, South African Thembekile Molaudzi was released from prison last week after serving 11 years for the 2002 murder of Dingaan Makuna, a Mothutlung policeman. The only evidence implicating Molaudzi was the confession of another man also accused of the crime. After a long battle, the Constitutional Court overturned Molaudzi’s conviction, issuing him a Warrant of Liberation that called for his immediate release.
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Reblogged this on Wrongly Convicted Group Website and commented:
The word of a criminal with a motkive to lie should not be trusted.