Tshireletso Kgonoga is alleged to have killed Resego Lesika Kopaditlhare of Palamakuwe lands in Shoshong by chopping her with an axe on March 8, 2011 at Palamakuwe lands.He testified in court that he was in a relationship with the accused for four years prior to the murder. He said while he was in a relationship with the accused, she was impregnated by another man in 2009. When asked by state prosecutor, Merapelo Mokgosi, why that did not prompt him to kill the deceased then in 2009, the accused said he loved her too much to hurt her.
"I accepted the pregnancy then because I could not imagine my life with anyone else but her. I also accepted it because I could not impregnate her since she was still at school," he said.Kgonoga further said their relationship started to change at the beginning of 2011."A man called Kabo came into the picture in 2011 and my relationship with Lesika was not the same. On the day of the offence, I caught Lesika with Kabo. When I confronted her, she insulted my parents and me."The insults that she directed at my parents triggered my anger. I had no intention of killing her," he said before the court.
