Ex-BCL Mine employee at cross hairs of hangman

Friday, September 11, 2020

FRANCISTOWN: A former BCL Mine employee who has been convicted of murdering his girlfriend is facing the possibility of capital punishment should the Court rule that there were no exceptional extenuating circumstances that led him to commit the crime.

The convict, Khumoetsile Mantswe, 36, was found guilty of intentionally killing his girlfriend, Masedi Tshime, on December 30, 2016 at Lesenepole village in the Central Administrative District of Botswana.

Justice Bengbame Sechele found Mantswe guilty of murder after the accused stabbed Tshime-the mother of his two children and former teacher at Kobajango Junior Secondary School with a knife more than 20 times in front of their children-after their love relationship allegedly went through a rough patch.

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Ex-BCL Mine employee at cross hairs of hangman

FRANCISTOWN: A former BCL Mine employee who has been convicted of murdering his girlfriend is facing the possibility of capital punishment should the Court rule that there were no exceptional extenuating circumstances that led him to commit the crime.

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