Grieving Family Rejects Murderous Relative

Aobakwe Lehupu
Aobakwe Lehupu

MOLEPOLOLE: Seven years later, a Molepolole family struggling to come to terms with the brutal killing of their family members by one of their own, has rejected their murder convict relative recently handed a prison sentence.

On April 6, 2021, the Gaborone High Court judge Michael Leburu sentenced Aobakwe Lehupu, 27, to 25 years imprisonment for killing his grandmother, grandfather, aunt and niece at Ratshere lands in the outskirts of Molepolole village back in May 2014.

Then, the 21-year-old Lehupu torched a hut in which his grandmother and niece were sleeping, burning them to death before raping his aunt and hacking her and his grandfather to death. Lehupu was facing four counts of murder, two counts of arson, two attempted murder cases, one count of rape and two common assault cases. Lehupu committed the gruesome murders whilst he was on parole after he a pardon by then president Ian Khama whilst serving time for raping his own sister.

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