A suspected ATM bombers attempt to sue the police ministry for R3.2m for damages incurred in a shootout failed after he and his girlfriend submitted contradictory evidence.
Last week the Mpumalanga high court blocked Senzo Gerald Mkhabela from suing the state for injuries he suffered and damage to his car during a police operation to prevent an ATM bombing at Matsulu shopping centre in Mbombela in 2023.
According to the judgment delivered by judge Thandi Nyambi, Mkhabela had claimed that he had stopped his car outside a guesthouse and was in the company of his girlfriend and a friend when someone unknown to him knocked on his side window.
