Mojalefa Letele, who is on trial for conspiracy to murder Nomsa Stuurman in March 2019, wants all charges against him to be dropped. State prosecutor, Advocate Moipone Moroka, is expected to oppose the motion of acquittal. Stuurman was killed by an inmate, Jongikhaya Samsam.

In his testimony in 2020, Samsam detailed how the accused mastermind, Letele, placed a hammer for him on top of a steel cabinet in the corridors. He alleged that Letele signalled to him by nodding where he had placed the murder weapon to carry out the heinous crime against Stuurman. It's alleged that one of the inmates - only known as Thabo, who is a state witness - saw the hammer and took it to a drawer of a steel cabinet in a nearby office.

Samsam was slapped with double life sentences by the High Court in October 2019 for killing Stuurman and for raping and holding her colleague hostage. He previously implicated Letele and said he was promised R100 000, a pair of sneakers and favours to make his life easier, in case he was arrested for the murder.

The testimony continues.

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