Phalaborwa

She identified her uncle from the gaps between the teeth of a skull she was shown in Phalaborwa mortuary, Fetsang Jafta told the Phalaborwa Circuit Court on Friday. Jafta was testifying in the trial of three men accused of killing her uncle, Nelson Chisale, by feeding him to lions on January 31 last year.

A doctor was called to examine lion murder accused Mark Scott-Crossley on Thursday, after he was put into the cells at Phalaborwa Circuit Court when his bail was cancelled over an altercation with a witness. Scott-Crossley covered his face with his hands and wept at being incarcerated at the start of the lunch adjournment after the bail ruling.

The bail of lion-murder accused Mark Scott-Crossley’s was revoked in the Phalaborwa Circuit Court on Thursday after he was accused of intimidating a witness. Scott-Crossley is on trial for allegedly killing a former employee, Nelson Chisale, by feeding him to lions on January 31 2004.

Mark Scott-Crossley’s R250 000 bail could be revoked for allegedly grabbing a witness’s T-shirt and muttering to him at the close of proceedings on the second day of his trial for allegedly feeding former employee Nelson Chisale (41) to lions in January last year.

A security guard was too far from where Nelson Chisale was being assaulted to save him, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court — trying three men accused of feeding Chisale to lions — heard on Tuesday. He also had no phone to call for help, Forget Tsaku Ndlovu testified.

There was a crush at the door of Phalaborwa Circuit Court on Tuesday as spectators jostled for seats in the public gallery for the second day in the trial of three men accused of feeding a former colleague to lions. People queued outside from early on Tuesday morning to be assured of a place inside.

The trial of the three men accused of throwing a man to his death in a lion’s den was adjourned on Monday morning when the first of the accused pleaded guilty, contrary to his lawyer’s instructions. Richard ”Doctor” Mathebula told the court: ”I would say I plead guilty because I followed instructions given to me by my employer.”

Hundreds of Kruger National Park animals travelled to a new home in Mozambique on Tuesday as part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park wildlife relocation project.