Peter Roebuck case tipped to reopen by South Africa DPP

By Chris Barrett
Updated August 3 2015 - 10:13am, first published 9:26am
Mysterious death: Cricket writer Peter Roebuck.
Mysterious death: Cricket writer Peter Roebuck.
Still searching for answers: Elizabeth Roebuck with a photo of her son, Peter. Photo: Nick Miller
Still searching for answers: Elizabeth Roebuck with a photo of her son, Peter. Photo: Nick Miller

After four years of stonewalling from South African police, the family of the late Peter Roebuck are set to finally be given access to evidence from the Cape Town hotel room where he spent the final minutes of his life, with the Director of Public Prosecutions in South Africa believed to be ready to order that an inquest into the cricket writer's death while in police custody be re-opened.

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