Gardee family accuse police of 'gross incompetence' at crime scene
The Gardee family says they are disappointed in the police's handling of the crime scene and the investigation so far into their daughter's murder.
This, after a post-mortem examination on Hillary Gardee revealed there was a bullet lodged in the back of her head.
An initial police report stated that the 28-year-old was murdered with bruises on her body.
Gardee, the daughter of the EFF's former secretary-general and attorney Godrich Gardee, was found dumped in a bush outside Nelspruit on Tuesday, four days after she went missing.
"Our biggest concern is that the police on the scene did not pick up that Hillary Gardee had been shot and this is gross incompetence," says family spokesperson Sinawo Thambo.
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"It does not need forensics to identify a bullet wound on a body, so that means the police did not conduct a thorough investigation of the crime scene and at this point, it is too late.
"That crime scene has been contaminated. People were doing walkabouts with the media there. Now that can't recreate that crime scene. They haven't located carriages."
Thambo says transactions were made from Gardee's bank account the night she went missing.
"There were transactions from the point at which she was abducted, about three to four hours from that point in time of what is known as eWallet sent to herself."
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