CCTV footage of the murder of Cape Town defence lawyer, advocate Pete Mihalik, shows the clinical precision of the hit, and the planning it must have taken.

Clips taken from the "silent witnesses" of CCTV cameras dotted around Sea Point were shown on Thursday during the murder trial of three men in the Western Cape High Court.

The footage, retrieved from CCTV cameras in Thornhill and Cavalcade roads by police IT specialist Werner Höll, show that by the time Mihalik pulled up to the intersection in October 2018, the gunman was already in position.

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