Cajee said Rodrigues was entitled to have his legal defence in his criminal trial paid for by the state. He said this was because as a former member of the erstwhile security branch of the South African police, he was carrying out the orders of his superiors in ensuring Timol's demise.
Cajee said Rodrigues’s continued efforts to delay his trial constituted an abuse of the court process and was manifestly not in the public interest. “I accordingly call on the state attorney to immediately decline to pay further costs in his attempt to delay and stop his trial,” he said. His petition in October is in relation to a Johannesburg high court order in June that dismissed his application for a permanent stay of prosecution. Rodrigues had applied for a permanent stay after being charged with Timol's murder in July 2018.
“Following numerous postponements, without a single witness being called, Mr Rodrigues exercises every avenue to avoid his day in court. This is convenient since Mr Rodrigues is not in custody and is out on bail of R2,000 since his first court appearance on July 30 2018,” he said.
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