A man who admitted to taking nine Pretoria News advertising staff hostage on April 25 last year was acquitted on Friday on a charge of attempted murder. Lionel George, of Danville, west of Pretoria, earlier pleaded guilty in the city’s regional court to charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and two rounds of ammunition.
The man who held several Pretoria News employees hostage last year on Tuesday pleaded guilty to 11 of the charges against him. However, he pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to kill police Constable David Bapela when he allegedly shot him in the lower leg.