Four prisoners still on death row

Four convicts remain on death row after the Court of Appeal conferred a custodial sentence on Benson Keganne, Raymond Leshomo and Arnold Masango, according to sources within the Botswana Prison Service.

Mmegi can reveal that among those still on death row are Zibani Thamo, Modise Tlhokamolelo, Mangombe Tadubane and Gatlhalosamang Gaboakelwe.

Thamo was convicted by the Francistown High Court for the 2007 murder of his girlfriend, Sihle Dube. Her mutilated body parts were dug up from various shallow graves along the Tati riverbank, a month after she went missing from her Somerset rented house where she had lived with her killer. The discovery was made after the convict led the police to different spots where he had buried her partially burnt body parts, following his arrest a month after the killing.

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