Oscar Pistorius's defence lawyer has accused South African police of "exploiting" the country's legal system through sloppy police work, just two weeks before the Paralympian learns his fate in court.
In a lecture to law students on Wednesday, Barry Roux highlighted corruption in the country's beleaguered force.
Mr Roux, defending 27-year-old Pistorius on charges of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, said: "There's tardiness, they don't take the docket to court. Sometimes they don't take it because they sold it. Or sometimes they don't take it because they have misfiled it," said Roux about South African police officers in an address to law students at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
"The biggest problem in South Africa is that "there's a fair chance they [criminals] won't get caught – or if arrested, won't get tried," said Roux, according to local paper The Citizen.
This isn't the first time Mr Roux has lambasted South Africa's police.
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