South African police convicted over taxi driver dragged to death

Eight South African <g data-gr-id="11">policeman</g> were on Tuesday found guilty of murdering a Mozambican man who died after being dragged behind a moving police van two years ago.

The 27-year-old taxi driver, Mido Macia, died in police custody in February 2013 after being arrested for parking his car on the wrong side of the road.

Bystanders filmed Macia being manhandled, handcuffed to the back of a police van and dragged 

hundreds of metres (yards) in Daveyton, east of Johannesburg. Just over two hours later he was found dead in his cell in a pool of blood.