State Withdraws Murder Charge

Nonofo Ndubiwa was set free after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Leonard Sechele wrote to Francistown Magistrate, Thebeetsile Mulalu to drop the charges. The magistrate said he would not dispute the DPP's direction, hence he dismissed the charge. When Ndubiwa inquired why the prosecution had decided to drop the charge, the magistrate informed her that he was not obliged to seek the reasons.

It is, however, said that the charge was dropped after the post-mortem results proved that the child died of natural courses because he had asthma, instead of poisoning as earlier alleged. Initially, Ndubiwa of Mmadinare had been accused of unlawfully administering poison to the two-year-old son of Omogolo Gabosekwe (27) in Block 7, Francistown.