Cellphone evidence in mom's drive-by shooting

The former Nigerian Olympic athlete accused of hiring the killers of a Pretoria mother phoned her estranged husband’s best friend 55 times the month before the murder

This is what the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court heard today.

Cellphone forensic analyst Francois Moller told the court there had been 55 calls between Nigerian Ambrose Monye and Andre Gouws, and another 34 calls from Monye that Gouws ignored.

Gouws had phoned Monye 26 times in the month before November 8, when Chanelle Henning was shot dead.

Moller was giving evidence in a bail application by Gouws, who is also accused of arranging Henning’s murder.

She was shot dead by two men on a motorbike after dropping off her child at a nursery school in Faerie Glen.

Moller said all records on Gouws’s handset detailing calls between him and Henning’s husband Nico prior to the murder had been  deleted.

Calls to Monye had also been deleted, but cellphone records had shown the deleted call records.

Henning and her husband were separated and involved in a custody  battle over their child.