As it turns out, the lead investigator in the Oscar Pistorius murder case—the one who blew it on the stand Wednesday—is set to go on trial for attempted murder himself soon. Yikes:

South African police say the lead investigator in the case against double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius faces attempted murder charges in an October 2011 shooting.

Police Brig. Neville Malila said Thursday that detective Hilton Botha is scheduled to appear in court in May on seven counts of attempted murder. Malila says Botha and two other police officers fired shots while trying to stop a minivan in the incident.

On Wednesday, the prosecution case against Pistorius began to unravel with revelations of a series of police blunders and Botha’s admission that authorities have no evidence challenging the double-amputee Olympian’s claim he killed his girlfriend accidentally.

So this is not exactly the prosecution’s best showing. Let’s hope that this drama doesn’t get in the way of figuring out what actually happened.