Mother who killed her baby faces murder charge

Judge Rannowane said he accepts that Atamelang Lesole was intoxicated at the time she committed the offence.

"I will accept therefore that she was intoxicated at the time of the commission of the offence and that such amounted to extenuating," said Judge Rannowane. Lesole is said to have smothered her baby after one of her boyfriend's relatives inquired as to where she had been and why she had gone for a long time, leaving a small child behind.