Eight SA police guilty of murdering taxi driver who caused traffic jam

Eight police officers have been found guilty of the murder of taxi driver Mido Macia in South Africa in 2013. Taxi driver Mr Macia, 27, died after being tied and dragged behind a police van near Johannesburg in an incident recorded on video by a bystander. The video showed Mr Macia, from Mozambique, struggling with police on 26 February after parking his vehicle illegally and causing a traffic jam in Daveyton, east of Johannesburg.

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Police officers then overcame the taxi driver and - in scenes so graphic they have been cut from the video broadcast here - tied him to the back of a van by his arms before driving off. According to the police officers, one of Mr Macia’s handcuffs became tangled with the leg of a bench in the back of the van and he was dragged along the street to the local police station by mistake. Mr Macia later died in his police cell. At the High Court in Pretoria, Judge Bert Bam convicted Bongamusa Mdluli, Meshack Malele, Thamsanqa Ngema, Percy Mnisi, Sipho Ngobeni, Lungisa Gwababa, Bongani Kolisi and Linda Sololo of Mr Macia’s murder.

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