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UPDATE: Grandson appears in Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court for grandmother’s murder
Kilmister was murdered in her house in the Cromdale area in the early hours of Monday February 28.
JJ Peters (25) appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court this morning, March 2, as the accused in the murder of his grandmother, Susanna Kilmister (68), on February 28.
Peters also appeared briefly in court on Tuesday March 1, when a confession he had made to a senior police official was confirmed.
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Kilmister was murdered in the early hours of February 28. She was apparently strangled, allegedly by Peters, who had been sharing her house on a smallholding in the Cromdale area about six kilometres outside the city on the R40.
The matter was remanded to March 10 for a formal bail application. Read the full story in tomorrow’s Lowvelder.
