Two arrested for septuagenarian's death
Staff Writer | Tuesday November 20, 2018 13:46
According to a police source privy to the matter, the suspects allegedly entered the deceased’s house in the early hours of Saturday morning at around 3am claiming to be workers who were hired by the deceased and her husband to finish building their house.
The source said that upon hearing that some people were knocking at the door, the old woman unwarily opened the door whereupon the men forcibly entered the house and took her to a bedroom.
The source said that the suspects then allegedly robbed her of some household items including a cellular phone that the police recovered from one of the suspects and money she recently received from her fundraising social group popularly known as Motshelo in the vernacular.
The source added that the suspects then allegedly proceeded to rape her before stabbing her twice on the chest with a sharp object believed to be a knife.
“The woman’s husband was attending a funeral outside Francistown. We have since arrested the suspects who are helping us with investigations. They will appear in court on Thursday,” said the source.
He added: “We have since discovered that after they raped the deceased, they washed her in a bid to conceal that she was raped. The duo will appear before a judicial officer today to make some confession statements”.
The acting station commander for Tatitown police assistant superintendent Clarkson Mbereki confirmed the incident although he was cagey with the offences the suspects will be likely charged with because investigations are still ongoing.
“It is still early to authoritatively state the charges that the suspects will be charged with because our investigations are still ongoing. The woman was found with some bruises on her body, but we are at the moment not sure what could have caused those bruises,” Mbereki said, adding that one of the suspects was arrested on Monday afternoon at his mother’s place in Kgaphamadi.
Later that night at around 9pm, the second suspect was spotted with the police at Area W shopping complex just a stone’s throw away from where the woman was killed.
The suspect, a notorious figure who dropped out of Mmei Junior Secondary School a few years back, was handcuffed. He was taken to the complex to show the police where they had hidden some of the deceased’s property in a culvert.
The alleged stolen property was then taken by the police from the culvert to be used as part of evidence.