Expert links Myeza's fingerprints to Etios in AKA murder trial
A fingerprint expert told the Durban High Court on Tuesday that prints on the rear passenger door of a Toyota Etios match Siyanda Eddie Myeza. The car was used in a 2022 hit on a Durban taxi boss.
Lt-Col Nathaniel Zechariah, an expert from the KwaZulu-Natal criminal records centre, gave the evidence. He said no one in the world has identical fingerprints. "I have no doubt that the fingerprints found in the Toyota Etios are those of accused No 3 in the dock," he said.
The Etios was used in the 2022 killing of taxi boss Gift Khanyile in Mayville. Zechariah also linked cartridges found at the murder scene of Kiernan "AKA" Forbes to Myeza.
Defence counsel Simphiwe Mlotshwa suggested the prints could come from a car wash where Myeza worked in 2022. He said this could explain why Myeza's prints were in many cars. Zechariah could not say how long fingerprints last.
Myeza is 23 and is one of seven men who pleaded not guilty in the trial over the murders of Forbes and Tebello "Tibz" Motsoane. The state says Myeza supplied one of the two guns used to kill either Forbes or Motsoane. The trial continues.
Key facts
- Who
- Nathaniel Zechariah (Lt-Col, expert witness from the KwaZulu-Natal criminal records centre); Siyanda Eddie Myeza (accused No 3 in the murder trial); Tebello Motsoane; Simphiwe Mlotshwa (defence counsel)
- What
- Lt-Col Nathaniel Zechariah of the KwaZulu-Natal criminal records centre told the Durban high court that fingerprints on the rear passenger door of the getaway car matched Myeza. The defence suggested the prints could have come from a car wash where Myeza worked in 2022. The trial continues.
- When
- 20 October 2026
- Where
- Durban, Mayville, KwaZulu-Natal
- Status
- Reported