Stepdaughter 'Murder' Accused Sent For Psyche Evaluation

The Monitor discovered that most people in the court audience thought that the accused, Motlatsi Khoto, 44, an aircraft marshal at the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB), would be tried and subsequently sentenced at the Francistown Magistrate Court for allegedly killing his stepdaughter, Metlha Sibanda, 9, in January, hence coming to court in droves.

They were obviously oblivious to the fact that murder cases are only mentioned at the magistrate court and tried at the High Court after committal from the former.