UPDATE: Details emerge after woman confesses to murdering wife of lover on live TV
The husband of a South African woman murdered in Mozambique has not been arrested as reported by other media platforms.
Petro Prinsloo was found murdered in her house in Mozambique on 27 September.
It was reported on Tuesday that Faan Prinsloo was arrested on either October 4 or 5, and that he had been denied bail after the murder of his wife Petro, 50, in Matola in Maputo.
However, the Middelburg Observer spoke to Prinsloo on Thursday last week, and subsequently published his interview on Friday.
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Middelburg Observer managed to get hold of Prinsloo on Tuesday morning, who laughingly confirmed that he has not been arrested, despite media reports to the contrary.
“They cannot arrest me, no matter how much they want to,” Prinsloo said.
It was reported in the Middelburg Observer that Petro Prinsloo was killed on Thursday, September 27. She was discovered by her domestic worker.
Family of Mrs Prinsloo said that on that fateful day, Prinsloo left for work at around 6.30am as per usual. Mrs Prinsloo spoke to her niece over the phone at the time when her husband left and to her son at around 7am that morning. Her domestic worker discovered her body at 7.30am.
Prinsloo rushed home from work after being informed of his wife’s murder.
Prinsloo’s business partner, Aida Mahomade, and a former employee, Alsino (surname unknown), were arrested on the same day Mrs Prinsloo’s body was found.
A screenshot of the interview Aida Mahomade granted with a Mozambican television channel.
Mahomade lived in the same complex as the Prinsloo couple. Her arrest follows an investigation by Mozambican police. It was found that Mahomade and Alsino have been planning the murder for two months, communicating via Mahomade’s domestic worker’s cell phone.
Video footage from security cameras at the complex shows how Mahomade sends her domestic worker to run errands before she switches off the power to bypass the security cameras at the gate and the Prinsloo homestead.
She later admitted to police that she allowed Alsino access to the property. Alsino was instructed to drown Mrs Prinsloo in the pool but instead bashed her head against the floor and a step leading to the bedroom until she died. She was overpowered while eating breakfast in the kitchen.
A screenshot of Alsino during his interview on a Mozambican television channel.
Prinsloo said that it seemed like the scene was tampered with since Mrs Prinsloo’s body was placed in an awkward position and some of the blood at the scene was cleaned.
“There were sheets with blood on the scene. But the sheets do not belong to us. I don’t know where it came from,” Prinsloo said.
Both Mahomade and Alsino admitted the above to police in a statement, Prinsloo said.
In an unexpected twist, the two arrested suspects summoned a Mozambican television channel to prison and admitted to the murder on television. Mahomade added that she and Prinsloo were having an affair and that she killed Mrs Prinsloo because she had found out about it and threatened her husband with divorce.
She also claimed that she promised Alsino R25,000 (100 000 meticais) for the murder and that Mr Prinsloo was working away from home on the island Santa Maria.
Prinsloo told the Middelburg Observer that her claim of an affair is an outright lie and that her version on television was laced with inaccuracies. He said that he suspects his wife was killed in order to frame him for the murder.
“If I was arrested and convicted of murder, it would get me out of the way so Aida can take over the business,” Mr Prinsloo said.
He said that her sudden claim of an affair was aimed at pulling him down with her.
A source told the Middelburg Observer that Mrs Prinsloo previously discovered ‘black magic’ powder in her house and suspected that someone was trying to bewitch her. She was an avid Christian.
On the day of Mrs Prinsloo’s murder, a cross she wore around her neck was found ripped off and lying in a pool of blood. Police allegedly discovered the same mysterious powder Mrs Prinsloo found in Mahomade’s house after her arrest.
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