Man, 44 kills 70-year-old lover
Nata police officers are questioning a 44-year-old man in connection with the murder of of a 70-year -old woman in Nata.
Dimakatso Mokhutshwane’s badly decomposed body was discovered on Tuesday afternoon in an old manhole.
The body was wrapped with a blanket, tightly tied with a wire.
The boys in blue exhumed the body late in the evening, and because of the state it was in the corpse was immediately buried around 2am on Wednesday.
Confirming the incident, Nata Police Station Commander, Superintendent Bopelo Ntatiwa said they have arrested a 44 year old man who is helping them with the investigations.
“The suspect was the deceased’s boyfriend and he is the one who led us to the crime scene. The deceased was reported missing on the 29th only for her body to be found yesterday in a bad state,” said Ntatiwa.
He said they have not yet established what could have led the suspect to commit the offence.
The Voice met with the deceased family who are still shocked to the devastating news.
The visibly distressed deceased’s son, 36-year-old Bafedile Gaeeme could hardly hold back the tears.
Gaeeme said they together with the suspect have been looking for their mother for the past three days.
“At first this man claimed he did not know where our mother was. Then he lied saying he last saw her getting in a car. We searched everywhere even at the cattlepost and found nothing,” said Gaeeme.
Their worst fears came true the following day when a dreaded call from the police announced their mother’s death.
Game revealee to The Voice that his mother and the suspect’ relationship began last year around November.
“I never liked him, and he only came here in my absence. I once chased him out, now look at what he has done. My mother died a painful death and was buried like a dog,”
For his part, the deceased’s brother 67-year-old George Lopane said the gruesome incident opened old wounds as they are still recovering from the loss of their brother last year.
“We long lost our parents and Dimakatso was like a mother to us. How can this man be this cruel, killing my sister? I wonder how my sister’s children are going to survive without their mother,” he said somberly.
Mbise is alleged to have snuffed out the life of his lover by hitting her with a blunt object. The deceased leaves behind her four children being three boys and one girl.
