Forensic expert accuses police of fabricating evidence

The report, says the Cape Times, corroborates the earlier findings of several other experts that the investigation had been bungled by inept and possibly fraudulent police work. Forensic experts found that the fingerprints submitted by the police as evidence could not have come from a flat surface, but from a cylindrical shape, possibly a glass. The fingerprints linked Lotz\' boyfriend Fred van der Vyfer to the murder. Stellenbosch University actuarial student Inge Lotz was bludgeoned and stabbed to death in her off-campus flat in March 2005. The Directorate of Pubic Prosecutions said the fingerprint evidence would be scrapped because the foils on which the prints were collected had been swopped accidentally. However, independent forensic consultant David Klatzow said: ‘It is my view that the police and prosecuting team cannot be allowed to get away with a \'whoops\' explanation.’ Klatzow said he knew of at least two other cases where criminal evidence had been ‘doctored in a dishonest fashion to bolster the State\'s case’. Full Cape Times report