Controversial businessman Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala, alongside his co-accused Musa Kekana, Tiego Floyd Mabusela, Tsakani and Zandile Nthabiseng Nzama
"I hear you, but I was not present."
That was the answer a police officer gave over and over in the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday, as the advocate for accused number one in the Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala trial put it to him that police had beaten his client, tied him up and suffocated him with a plastic courier bag.
Advocate Riaan Gissing, acting for Musa Kekana, said it happened at a house in the Johannesburg suburb of Kew, hours after Kekana's arrest.
Colonel Tumelo Tsotetsi, of the tactical response team, was not at that house.
