Herder sentenced to death for woman's hacking

Herder sentenced to death for woman's hacking
Herder sentenced to death for woman's hacking

FRANCISTOWN: A 27-year-old man of Sefhophe village was on Tuesday sentenced to death for hacking the wife of his employer to death with an axe.

Mmoloki Pholo was sentenced to the gallows on his guilty plea for murdering Kemme Mercy Sebolao, 44, at Bonnonyane cattlepost near Sefhophe on January 14, 2018.

Sebolao met her fate after her husband sent her to the cattle post to take water to Pholo who they had hardly been employed for a month. The court heard that before murdering Sebolao, Pholo spent the day raping her before he murdered her and thereafter attempted to bury her body.

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