South Africa interfered in Rwandan spy chief’s murder case, inquest told
Lawyer for Patrick Karegeya’s family says police failures point to abuse of process
The family of Rwanda’s murdered intelligence chief Patrick Karegeya celebrated on Thursday when a South African magistrate said the identities of four suspects were known and police investigators said they were “directly linked” to the Rwandan government.
At the end of a 20-minute inquest in Johannesburg, the magistrate Mashiane Mathopa told relatives of the former spy boss, who was found strangled in a Johannesburg hotel room on 1 January 2014, that there was a prima facie case to answer and he was sending the matter to South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) for action.