I would rather be shot than buried alive - Coffin assault victim tells court
Middelburg - Victor Mlotshwa, who was forced into a coffin by two men in Middelburg, told the High Court sitting in the town's Magistrate's Court that he would rather have been shot than buried alive.
"I think would have been better if they had shot me than burying me alive,'" Mlotshwa told the packed court gallery.
Mlotshwa was responding to cross-examination by advocate Org Basson who asked if Mlotshwa was not afraid they would shoot him when he suddenly ran from the coffin.
Mlotshwa was testifying in the fifth day of the trial.
Theo Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen are facing charges of kidnapping, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, attempted murder and possession of an illegal firearm.