Posted on 11/20/2019 7:32:36 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
A gun presented as evidence in a robbery trial has accidentally discharged in court, killing a prominent lawyer in a freak accident.
A prominent South African barrister has been shot and killed in court after a gun presented as evidence in the trial went off.
Senior state advocate Addelaid Ferreira-Watt died after the freak shooting at the Ixopo Regional Court on Monday when the shotgun dropped and blasted her in the left hip, News24 reported.
“It is alleged that the weapon was brought to court to be entered as evidence in a house robbery case when it accidentally discharged in court,” a police spokesman told the website.
Court staff desperately tried to stop the bleeding, but the 51-year-old mother-of-one later died in hospital. South African police are investigating a possible case of culpable homicide and are working to find out why the shotgun was still loaded.
“There is absolutely no need for a weapon being submitted in evidence in a court of law to still be capable of being fired,” a legal friend of Ms Ferreira-Watt told the UK Mirror.
“The weapon and the ammunition that it had contained at the time of the alleged crime should have been submitted in separate evidence bags, so someone is in big trouble. Addelaid was an excellent lawyer, a devoted mother and a lover of art and animals. For her to be taken away so cruelly and in such a freakish way is just agonising.”
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Affirmative action in South Africa... Isn't it grand.
Seems like too many coincidences.
“You bad gun!”
Pretty dumb. And he probably failed to follow rule #1 with a firearm — always treat an firearm as if it is loaded even and >especially< if you know that it isn’t. Good habits will save lives.
Bore clear ...
Now THAT is an automatic weapon.
Darwin sighs thinking about spears, loincloths and shotguns.
that’s one lawyer...
Let alone pointing a presumed unloaded weapon at someone and pulling the trigger.
Rule #1, never point a firearm at a fellow human unless you have intentions of firing.
Rule #2, there is no such thing is an unloaded firearm.
Last week we were in a Scheels sporting goods store and some little jackass employee was pointing a rifle at people. I felt like taking it away from him and beating him with it.
Do not discount the incompetence of the people involved. AA in South Africa means the incompetent get the job.
A good start?
“went off when it was dropped”, so loaded and cocked, safety off. I wonder what type of shotgun, and how old a shotgun, fires when dropped.
“keep the booger hook off the bang switch, dummy!”
Which he failed to do
“... a gun presented as evidence in the trial went off.”
“It is alleged that the weapon was brought to court to be entered as evidence in a house robbery case when it accidentally discharged in court.”
S.A. No need to wonder.
A pic of the deceased and her daughter. Are you saying South Africa has affirmative action for women? White women?
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