Omotoso's acquittal under scrutiny again

THE NPA yesterday asked the Eastern Cape High Court, sitting in Gqeberha, to clarify its judgment in which Nigerian pastor and televangelist Timothy Omotoso and his co-accused were acquitted of 30 charges, including rape and human trafficking.

- ZELDA VENTER

Judge Irma Schoeman, who acquitted the accused as she found that the State did not prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, was told by the prosecuting authority that it was not clear on which facts her acquittal was based.

She was told that the NPA needed to be clear as it must base its appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal on questions of law under the Criminal Procedure Act, which arose during the trial.