Siphiwe Bholo

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	4
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Year Convicted:	1993
Year Cleared:	1997
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	South Africa
County or Region of Crime:	Gauteng
City of Crime:	Eikenhof
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Siphiwe Bholo was a codefendant of Boy Ndweni and Sipho Gavin. Wrongly convicted of 1993 killings in Eikenhof by the perjured testimony of a police informant promised R250,000 by Johannesburg's Brixton Murder and Robbery Unit chief Charlie Landman, and the false confessions of the three codefendants Landman extracted by torturing the men. The prosecution's purchase of perjured testimony was disclosed in an affidavit by the informant, Abel Korope in 1997."
Conviction Caused By:	"Perjured testimony of a police informant purchased by the prosecution for R250,000, and the false confessions of the three codefendants under torture administered by policeman Landman, who also initiated the payoff to the informant."
Innocence Proved By:	"Confession by the informant in an affidavit that he had fabricated his testimony against Bholo, Ndweni and Gavin in exchange for the promise of R250,000, and members of the Azanaian People's Liberation Army confessed to the murders in their application for amnesty before South Africa's truth commission."
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	""Charlie Landman 'told me to lie in court'"
Information Location 1:	http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:47siVpai4IEC:www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/97aug/01aug-news.html+italy+and+%22wrongful+conviction%22&hl=en
Information Source 2:	Top cop to face charges
Information Location 2:	http://www.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/960315/NEWS4.html
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Siphiwe Bholo

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

4

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1993

Year Cleared:

1997

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

South Africa

County or Region of Crime:

Gauteng

City of Crime:

Eikenhof

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Perjured testimony of a police informant purchased by the prosecution for R250,000, and the false confessions of the three codefendants under torture administered by policeman Landman, who also initiated the payoff to the informant."

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

""Charlie Landman 'told me to lie in court'"

Information Location 1:

http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:47siVpai4IEC:www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/97aug/01aug-news.html+italy+and+%22wrongful+conviction%22&hl=en

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Top cop to face charges

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http://www.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/960315/NEWS4.html

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