Pretoria – A pair of large, scuffed running shoes that police say they found hidden in a kennel at the home of alleged axeman Joseph Ntshongwana took centre stage at his trial on Tuesday when a police expert insisted that a toecap, found near one of his alleged victims, was a “perfect match” for the right shoe.

Major Ze-Ev Krein, the chief forensic analyst at the police forensic science laboratory, was adamant that his “physical match” of the shoe and the toecap was an “exact science” and, in fact, it trumped any other scientific proof.

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