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The duo were found dead with hands tied in separate bedrooms
A week after a granny and her grandchild were murdered at home in are still clueless about who could be the killer.
The 52-year-old granny, Gobona Mhaladi, and her granddaughter, a 10-year-old standard five pupil at Lewis Primary School, Laofa Mhaladi, were found dead inside their house with their hands tied to the back on Sunday.[/mepr-show]
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Kweneng District Officer Commanding No.11, Senior Superintendent Modise Gabatshwane, has confirmed that police investigations were ongoing and, by the time of going to press on Wednesday, there was no suspect.
Meanwhile, The Voice team visited the Mhaladi family at their place in Maunatlala ward to get full details of the story.
Speaking in an interview, the older brother to the deceased, 77-year-old Ramsden Boykie Sechele, said he received a telephone call on Sunday afternoon to inform him about the murder of his younger sister and her granddaughter.
“The incident is suspected to have occurred on a Friday night because my sister’s first-born child, who is the murdered girl’s mother, had tried to phone her and the phone rang unanswered. The following day, Saturday morning, she tried to call again and still there was no answer and that was when she tried calling the daughter and her phone was switched off,” said Sechele.
However, at that time, the girl’s mother, Mimmy Mmamorepo, 33, only suspected the mother and her daughter had gone somewhere, leaving their phones at home, and decided to visit them on Sunday.
When she arrived, she suspected something was amiss when she realised the house seemed to have been broken into.
A friend who had accompanied Mmamorepo then went inside the house and found the deceased’s lifeless bodies in their two separate bedrooms, with their arms tied to their backs, legs tied together and ropes tied around their necks,” Sechele further explained.
The matter was then reported to Molepolole police, who took the deceased to Scotish Livingstone Hospital where they were confirmed dead.
Meanwhile, none of the neighbours heard or even suspected anything sinister had happened at the neighbours’ on Friday .
The family revealed that Gobona’s car was later found parked on the roadside at Kopong junction along Molepolole-Gaborone Road.
Although no one was inside the car, roadside hawkers allegedly saw a man sitting inside for sometime before he got out and disappeared into the bush.
The man’s clothes are said to have been found inside the deceased’s car by the police.
“We are still shocked and concerned that, as people, we are not safe. I don’t know how we could better protect ourselves looking at the fact that these people were murdered inside their house without any noise being heard. This incident has left the community shocked and afraid,” lamented Sechele.
The late Gobona was described as a loving sociable woman with many friends. She was a member of UCCSA Church. She leaves behind two brothers, two sisters and two children.
They were laid to rest last week Saturday.
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