VIDEO | Lawyer for televangelist Tim Omotoso, accused of rape, says trial is ‘unfair’ and ‘tainted’

Tim Omotoso and his co-accused argue outside the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha on Thursday. (Candice Bezuidenhout/News24)

The lawyer for televangelist Tim Omotoso, who is accused of rape, has asked the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha to make the trial unfair, saying it was “tainted by corrupt prosecutors”.

In his application to the court on Thursday, Peter Daubermann also asked that the testimony of witnesses in the case be declared inadmissible because, he said, some of the complainants were questioned by the prosecutors in question, lawyers Nceba Ntelwa and Ishmet Cerfontein.

The allegations arise from Ntelwa allegedly telling a witness not to deviate from her statement to police, in which she did not mention an alleged rape, despite having informed Cerfontein of it.