By Staff Reporter
news@alexreporter.co.za
SOME of police members at Magatle Police Station might find themselves facing the might of the law if the wrongful arrest and alleged physical assault case against them is anything to go by.
This after a recent incident where three learners at the Piet Aphane Secondary School at Magatle village in Zebediela were arrested after being accused of stealing a fellow learner’s cellphone.
According to Lepelle Review’s reliable source, a learner whose father is a Police Officer at Magatle Police Station reported his missing cellphone at the principal and pointed the three victimised fellow learners to have stolen his phone.
“The three suspects were summoned to the principal’s office for questioning but they denied any knowledge about the lost phone,” said the source.
Just as everyone thought the missing phone matter was put to rest, surprisingly, a week later the father of the learner who lost his phone went to the school with a police van accompanied by other policemen in another van, and they arrested the three suspects.
When they arrived at the police station, the learners claimed they had been assaulted and tortured by the police, even though they maintained their innocence. The ordeal lasted for approximately three hours.
They were later released and told to go home on foot with their injuries. According to reports, their parents were never informed about the lost phone or their children being taken to the station.
The phone was said to have been discovered in another learner who is not part of the three suspected learneThe parents’ efforts to obtain full information about the whole saga were fruitless as neither the school staffers nor officials at the Magatle Schools Circuit could help them.
The parents had to take the injured learners to Magatle Hospital for treatment, and one of those learners is so badly affected.
It is reported that one of his lungs was badly injured as a result of torture and the spray they used on them at the station.
