MBOMBELA – The Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Mondli Zuma announced that a judgement against four suspects believed to be involved in the kidnapping and murder of two men, will be passed on Friday, 28 July 2017, at the Circuit of the Pretoria High Court sitting in Delmas.
The aforesaid judgement is against Thabang Elvis Nthako aged 36, Samson Bhuti Makuwa aged 25, George Maswanganyi aged 27 and Bheki David Mokoena aged 33, who are accused of two counts of kidnapping, murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances each.
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The suspects were arrested in November 2014, after police found Nthako driving a motor vehicle belonging to one of the murdered victims, Phillip Daniel Monkwe aged 50, who had been reported as missing.
When a probe was instituted, it led to the arrest of the other three, Makuwa, Maswanganyi and Mokoena. Further probe also revealed that the suspects had hitch-hiked Monkwe’s vehicle and were given a lift, along the way they held him at gunpoint and instructed him to drive to a direction leading to an old mine.
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Upon arrival, they blind-folded Monkwe forcing him out of his vehicle and placed him near a mine shaft which was about 45m deep, then told him to go and as a result, he fell into the shaft. During the investigation, the suspects pointed out to the police the above mentioned scene (shaft).
