How Khama's mercy claimed four lives

Thursday, May 08, 2014

Some of the huts that Lehupu allegedly set alight on Sunday evening

Murder suspect, Aobakwe Lehupu (22), previously received a Presidential pardon for stabbing a female relative, an incident which occurred three years before the horror massacre of four family members he is accused of committing on Sunday.

Yesterday the female victim from the prior incident, Neo Motlhale (62), told Mmegi at Ratsheru lands, 50 kilometres from Molepolole, that Lehupu had stabbed her with a knife on her abdomen and forehead after a money dispute.

“He stabbed me on the left side of my stomach and just above my right eye,” she recounted at the scene of Sunday’s family massacre.

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How Khama's mercy claimed four lives

Murder suspect, Aobakwe Lehupu (22), previously received a Presidential pardon for stabbing a female relative, an incident which occurred three years before the horror massacre of four family members he is accused of committing on Sunday.