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A damning forensic analysis is shaking the official story of the deadly police raid that killed taxi boss Bevan Loftus and four others. First-responder Ashley Houston testified that the evidence—low bullet holes, blood spatter, and only 27 shots fired in a cramped apartment—doesn’t align with a shootout. He argues the victims were likely shot while seated or crouched, not standing in defense. The inquiry now probes whether the operation was a cover-up for a contract killing, with Captain Deena Govender allegedly at the helm and yet to testify. Complicating matters, Loftus’s father denies his son was a drug dealer, while Houston describes him as deeply tied to local gangs—and five of Loftus’s drivers were already dead before his own murder. Questions also swirl around the task force’s formation, raising alarms about possible police infiltration and a broader pattern of extrajudicial killings under investigation by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate.

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