A former police officer – already sentenced to six years behind bars for his role in the murder of an alleged gangster, and facing another charge of murder with the case against him being reopened – sat quietly in the dock of the Port Elizabeth High Court on Thursday while his former attorney was grilled on the stand.

Attorney Bram Greyling, who represented Walter Francis in two failed bail applications, said of the state’s new evidence that the information in the documents was taken out of context and incorrectly interpreted...