SABRINA DEAN – State witness Jaco Scherman will return to the witness stand for a fourth day of cross examination when the Mangaung treason trial resumes in the Free State High Court tomorrow morning.
Johan Prinsloo stands accused of plotting to kill the ANC leadership during its elective conference in Mangaung in 2012.
Court proceedings were slightly delayed again today when the defence realised Scherman was referring to notes in the witness stand. An adjournment was requested to allow advocate Johan Nell to study the handwritten notes, which Scherman insisted he had been using openly because he thought he was allowed to use notes to jog his memory.
Nell later put it to the witness he had used notes to support and confirm his credibility and trustworthiness as a witness. The notes were handed in to the court as exhibit L.
Cross examination then continued with Nell focussing on minute details of numerous open and closed meetings, including a meeting on 17 September where plans of an attack on Mangaung were first mentioned.
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