A directive was issued for us to go and arrest Nimilote Verebesaga to question him on why he had threatened Indian people living in the area.

As the murder trial of Nimilote Verebasaga continued this morning, Corporal Atonio Koro told the court that this was what the accused Maika Vuniwawa had told him and a fellow officer during an interview on April 10th 2007, about the night Verebasaga was allegedly taken by soldiers.

Corporal Koro, in a statement he read out in court today, relayed that Vuniwawa said he received a report about a break-in somewhere close to Nakaulevu and a directive was issued by the Platoon Commander Sergeant Alipate Rabitu to go to the scene and bring Verebasaga in for questioning.

It was highlighted in the statement that Vuniwawa said that he had ordered Verebasaga to go through a Leopard exercise at their Davuilevu base adding he had also told the deceased to crawl on the footpath.

In the statement, Vuniwawa denied assaulting Verebasaga.

Case continues at 2pm today.