Fannie Nkosi bail appeal denied
The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener · 3 June 2026 · 4m
Speaker 1: We have spoken about the mid Lunger Commission. We've been speaking about police officers in Speaker 1: general. And one of those, of course, who has achieved some kind of notoriety through Speaker 1: the mid Lunger Commission is a Funny and Corsi so funny and Cossi his lawyers Speaker 1: before the Pretoria High Court today for the outcome of his bail application appealing a Speaker 1: decision by the magistrate's court to deny him bail. Democato reporter on that story first, Speaker 1: Demokato, a bad day in the court for Funny and Cossi. Speaker 2: Absolutely a bad day, Mandy. And I'm not sure if this is going to end Speaker 2: here as you know that there are further charges that are being brought from Limbobo Speaker 2: to be added to this docket. So doesn't seem like the things are waking out Speaker 2: for him as much. But today what we had in court was that the magistrate. Speaker 2: Basically the argument by Cossi's legal team was that the lower court giange magistrate did Speaker 2: not properly apply the law to his presumption of innocence until proven guilty, saying that Speaker 2: that was not given much attention in the judgment and uh the High court judge Speaker 2: here Judge and Massopa rejected that claim and said that that was properly considered. The Speaker 2: law was properly applied to the other core part of the argument was that the Speaker 2: Bail Conditions Act or the legislation regarding bail was not Also, you know what was Speaker 2: misapplied in this instance is that other you know bill conditions, stricter bill conditions could Speaker 2: have been considered as opposed to justina him bail, things like you know,…
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