Limpopo husband nabbed for ‘hiring hitmen’ to kill wife
A 52-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing his estranged wife, whose body was found at her home in Onverwacht outside Lephalale in June 2021.
Limpopo police say the husband allegedly hired two hitmen to kill his wife Sbongile Ditsela in their house.
The two alleged hitmen were also arrested.
"On the day in question, the suspect had come to the house to make arrangements to collect his daughter after school. After the domestic worker opened for him, he went straight to the bedroom where he found his wife lying in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds,” says police spokesperson Mamphaswa Seabi.
"Police were called to the scene and upon arrival, they found that the suspects broke the window to gain access to the bedroom without anyone inside the house noticing. The suspects took the deceased's cellphone and car keys. The deceased was also found strangled with a rope."
Seabi says the suspects were arrested on different days.
"The first suspect was arrested on October 7 in Ga-Makanye village under Mankweng policing area. The deceased's husband was arrested on Sunday at his other house in Ga-Seleka village in Lephalale and the third was arrested in the early hours of yesterday in Mankweng.
"The husband and one of the suspects appeared in the Lephalale Magistrate's Court on Tuesday on charges of murder and house robbery.
"Their case was postponed to Friday for formal bail application.
"The third suspect appeared on Wednesday."
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