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‘I was sure I was dying’: Reiger Park accused alleges police torture

IOL · 25 August 2026 at 13:11

‘I was sure I was dying’: Reiger Park accused alleges police torture

Reagan Cheslin Collis, accused of killing two Gauteng police officers and two women in Reiger Park, Ekurhuleni, has told the Boksburg Magistrate's Court that police tortured him to confess to the killings.

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