Top Eastern Cape cop acquitted of kidnapping, torture charges
Warrant Officer Severiano Blundin (right) leaves the Gqeberha Magistrate’s Court with his lawyer, advocate Jason Thysse. (Lulama Zenzile/Netwerk24)
A multiple award-winning Eastern Cape police officer is a free man after he was acquitted of a string of charges, including torture, in the Gqeberha Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
Warrant Officer Severiano Blundin, a decorated member of the Gqeberha SAPS Flying Squad, was accused of kidnapping, torturing and assaulting three men in March 2019.
But after a trial that dragged on for two years, Blundin – once named the top-performing SAPS member in the Eastern Cape and for two consecutive years won the police’s national award for his dedication to fighting crime – triumphantly did his walk of freedom following the judgment.
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