diary

The storage room at Port Shepstone DPCI where the drugs were kept has no proper records in SAPS system; drugs are not recorded anywhere and the diary entries of exhibit handling are misleading, constituting major issues.

“It is a storeroom which has drugs in it which are not recorded anywhere on the SAPS system. There is no record of these drugs ... We have no entry of what you did on the 24th. We know you went into this vault, you handled these drugs on the 24th. There is no entry of that in this diary. ... Another false record in this diary. So it is not minor things, it is major things that mislead the reader of the diary.”

There is a record in the diary of an instruction to release the container, but no prior record of a decision to detain it.

“there is a record of an instruction to release ... That act, the opposite of the instruction to detain, is recorded”