Police crime scene analyst, Brenden Burgess, has testified in the re-opened inquest into the death of ANC leader, inkosi Albert Luthuli, in the Pietermaritzburg High Court that the version of the driver of the train that allegedly hit him is highly unlikely.
The first inquest in 1967 heard that the train driver saw Luthuli walking along the railway track towards the oncoming locomotive.
The magistrate found that Luthuli was hit by the train, but the family believes he was murdered. Fanele Mhlongo Nguni also reports-..
Burgess was part of a team who reconstructed the crash scene using evidence from the first inquest. He told the court that, among other things, he relied on reports from the initial inquest - a sworn statement by the train driver, Stephanus Lategan, and the Investigating Officer.
Lategan said in his sworn statement he applied the brakes the moment the locomotive hit Luthuli.