The attempted murder and malicious damage to property trial of controversial farm manager Mark Scott-Crossley has been set down for three days, starting from Wednesday until Friday, in the Naphuno Magistrate’s Court at Lenyenye outside Tzaneen in Limpopo.
Scott-Crossley was arrested in 2017 after evading arrest for a month.
He allegedly ran over Silence Mabunda twice with his car and broke his cell phone in Hoedspruit.
Scott-Crossley has pleaded not guilty. He also failed in his bid to have a higher court drop and strike his case off the roll.
He is not new to controversy.
In 2005, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court found him guilty of throwing his employee Nelson Chisale into a lion enclosure.
However, in 2007, the Supreme Court of Appeal set aside his murder conviction.
It gave him five years imprisonment, on the lesser offence of being an accessory.
He was released on parole in August 2008.
In the related video below, Mark Scott-Crossley handed himself over to the police in 2017 after being on the run for several weeks:
