Cape Town – Cellphone analyst Lambertus Steyn on Friday presented evidence in the trial of the five men accused of killing Senzo Meyiwa, the Bafana Bafana captain, in 2014.
According to EWN, Steyn’s analysis of call records indicated that there were several calls between the accused individuals leading up to the murder, contradicting their claims that they had never met before being charged.
A phone registered to accused number five, Fisokuhle Ntuli, was found to have made multiple calls to the phones of the other accused.
Col Lambertus Steyn: “My intention is to prove to the court that a sim swap was done on #SenzoMeyiwa’s cell phone after the incident.” #SenzoMeyiwaTrial pic.twitter.com/kN9hZ5odQC
— Newzroom Afrika (@Newzroom405) July 28, 2023
Meanwhile, News24 reported that the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria also heard that a SIM swap was carried out on Meyiwa’s cellphone number the day after his death, and eight calls were made from the SIM-swapped number to Kelly Khumalo’s cellphone.
Steyn also said that during cellphone download tracking the activity on Kelly’s phone, he found a “device boot-up” of the device had occurred on October 27 2014, a day after Senzo Meyiwa was murdered, Times Live reported.
The device boot-up was at about at about 1.31am, several hours after the murder.
A day after Senzo Meyiwa died Kelly Khumalo deleted everything on her phone.#SenzoMeyiwa #SenzoMeyiwaTrial #KellyKhumalo pic.twitter.com/gGvRLnsiNc
— Jones Mzizi (@jonesmzizi) July 28, 2023
Steyn said this could mean the owner of the phone deleted some or all of the information on the device.
“Because it is a smartphone, you can do it via the internet where you can access your phone and delete some of the information. It’s not necessary for you to have your phone in your hand [when deleting],” the report quoted him as saying.
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
