Hilton Botha, investigating officer in the Oscar Pistorius murder case, has been dropped due to a 2009 shooting incident, according to Agence France-Presse.
Botha was facing seven charges of attempted murder, but the charges were later dropped and then reinstated.
Botha also admitted this week that he'd contaminated the crime scene, acknowledged that police had no evidence to contradict Pistorius' rendition of events, and incorrectly claimed that he'd found boxes of steroids in Pistorius' room.
Just yesterday, Johannesburg police spokesperson Neville Malila said that Botha was chosen to handle the Pistorius case because he is a seasoned detective and said there were no plans to pull him off the investigation.
The Oscar Pistorius premeditated murder case is getting stranger by the day.
It is being reported that Hilton Botha, the investigation officer on the case, is facing seven charges for attempted murder after he drunkenly opened fire on a mini-bus filled with passengers. The incident, which took place in 2009, involved three other officers as well.
However, despite the charges, police plan to keep Botha on the Pistorius murder case, according to South Africa's Eyewitness News.
The South African Police Service has confirmed the charge of attempted murder against the detective. The charges were initially dropped, but have been reinstated.
Police spokesman Nevile Malila told Eyewitness News: "There was a decision to taken by the DPP's office to charge the members, each one of them with seven counts of attempted murder. That was the number of people that were in the taxi."
Malila said Botha, who was ridiculed yesterday for his bungling testimony at Pistorius's bail hearing, was a seasoned detective and there were no plans to take him off the murder case.
Yesterday, Botha told the court that authorities have no evidence challenging the double-amputee Olympian's claim he killed his girlfriend accidentally.
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