Mental evaluation for NW woman accused of killing husband with hammer
The Mogwase Magistrate’s Court in North West postponed the murder case
against a 42-year-old woman on Tuesday.
Nancy Majonhi is accused of killing her husband with a hammer in 2015.
“She then hacked him with a spade and threw the body parts into three different pit latrines before cleaning the crime scene out. Subsequent to the alleged killing, she went to Sun City police station where she reported her husband as missing,” says NPA North West spokesperson Henry Mamothame.
Majonhi then fled the country but then handed herself over to police after confessing to the murder to her family and in-laws in Zimbabwe.
“The families arranged to come to South Africa, where the accused handed herself over to the police. She later pointed the police to the different pit latrines where she threw the body parts, six years ago.”
A police investigation has so far managed to retrieve a skull and bones which have been taken for DNA tests.
Mamothame adds that she will remain in police custody while undergoing a health and mental examination before her next court appearance.
The case had been postponed to 19 October.
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