POLICE captain Johannes Hanekom, in charge of the 1997 identity parade in which people’s poet Mzwakhe Mbuli appeared in connection with the armed robbery of the First National Bank’s Waverley branch, admitted on Tuesday that the parade had been “irregular” and had contravened police regulations. Hanekom was testifying before the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on the first day of Mbuli’s long-delayed trial for the FNB robbery. Hanekom said the identity parade had gone ahead despite objections from Mbuli’s lawyer that Mbuli was much taller than the other participants. This, he admitted, was not permitted in regulations. In a strange turn of events, Hanekom further told the could that heist suspect Collin Chauke stood in the same parade with Mbuli.