Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 29-07-2018
A warrant of arrest has finally been issued for 80-year-old former security police sergeant Joao Anastacio “Jan” Roderiques implicated in the murder of anti-Apartheid activist Ahmed Timol.
In October 2017, the High Court in Pretoria ruled that Timol did not commit suicide but was rather murdered, overturning a 40-year-old inquest finding that endorsed the police’s version that Timol jumped to his death.
During the reopened inquest, the magistrate accepted Roderiques evidence that he was alone with Timol in a 10th floor
interrogation room at the security police’s Johannesburg headquarters when Timol committed suicide by jumping out of the window.
However Roderiques’ version was unequivocally rejected by Judge Billy Mothle, who presided at the re-opened inquest last year. Judge Mothle replaced the 1972 court’s suicide finding with one of murder – recommending that Roderiques role in the matter be re-investigated with a view to prosecution.
Roderiques is expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
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