Maqubela back in court

The widow of acting judge Patrick Maqubela and a co-accused are back in court today

 

 

Thandi Maqubela, the widow of acting judge Patrick Maqubela, and her co-accused Vela Mabena will appear again in the Cape High Court on Wednesday. At their appearance on Monday, Maqubela told the court her husband was diagnosed with bipolar mood disorder, a part of which was sex addiction.

 

This condition explained why he had two extramarital affairs, she said. She and Mabena have pleaded not guilty to murdering Maqubela by suffocating him with cling-wrap in his Sea Point apartment on June 5, 2009. Thandi Maqubela has also pleaded not guilty to additional charges of forgery and fraud.

 

Prosecutors Bonnie Currie-Gamwo and Pedro van Wyk allege that she forged her husband's signature on his will, and then fraudulently presented the forged will at the Johannesburg office of the Master of the High Court.

 

- Sapa