8 South African policemen jailed over Mozambican man’s murder
Eight South African policemen were jailed
Wednesday for 15 years each for the murder of a
Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged behind
a police van in an incident caught by mobile
phone cameras.
The death of Mido Macia provoked
widespread outrage, and threw the
spotlight on South Africa’s police force
and frequent allegations of brutality.
The 27-year-old Macia died in police
custody in February 2013 after being
arrested for parking his car on the
wrong side of the road.
Video footage showed Macia being
manhandled, handcuffed to the back of a
police van and dragged hundreds of
metres (yards) in Daveyton, east of
Johannesburg.
Just over two hours later he was found
dead in his cell in a pool of blood.
“Each of you are sentenced to 15 years
imprisonment,” High Court judge Bert
Bam said in the capital Pretoria.
“The arrest of the deceased and then
dragging behind the vehicle was totally
unneccessary, uncalled for and not
justified at all.”
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