NATIONAL NEWS - A former Springbok weightlifter, who was arrested on 1 August, appeared in the Roodepoort Regional Court on charges of possession and cultivation of dagga.
The appearance was for a bail application. The investigating officer told the court that on the day of the arrest, while the police were waiting for a search warrant at the suspect’s house, his 16-year-old daughter alerted him as to the police’s presence since he was not at his home in Roodepoort West.
He then instructed his daughter to destroy the evidence, which she did by moving the dagga plants to another part of the premises. The police caught her in the act though. When the man arrived home he asked the police if he could change his clothes, but when he was alone he also tried to destroy evidence by trying to flush some dagga down the toilet. Unfortunately for him it did not flush away properly and the police found the dagga floating in the toilet bowl.
Dagga biscuits (so-called space cakes) and lamps used in the cultivation process were also confiscated.
