Accused number one, Muzi Sibiya, in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, has accused police officers of forcing people to sign statements they know nothing about.

Sibiya is under cross-examination at the High Court in Pretoria, where he is appearing alongside four others for the 2014 murder of the Bafana Bafana captain.

Sibiya is said to have made admissions to lead investigator Brigadier Bongani Gininda and was taken to Diepkloof Police Station in Soweto, where his confession statement was taken by Colonel Nhlanganyelwa Mbotho in 2020.

Sibiya still maintains he was assaulted and forced to sign a statement he has no knowledge of.

“There’s no such thing in what Mbotho is saying. He’s lying before this court because they’ve been working together with Gininda and they have been doing this thing of making people sign a warning statement, so he’s lying. I know people that have told me that when their case was handled by Gininda, the same happened in what is happening in this matter; people were made to sign statements, and they told me that Mbotho was the person who made them sign.”

VIDEO| Senzo Meyiwa murder trial proceedings on 28 October: