Brixton Police Station celebrates a successful murder conviction after the suspect was sentenced to serve 12 years for murder.
Spokesperson Jeanette Backhoff said that on 22 December 2014 a woman was accused of murder after she, her boyfriend and friends visited a tavern in Vrededorp.
Backhoff said that the woman accused the deceased of having an affair with her boyfriend and that is when an argument ensued between the two women.
“The woman left the scene and later came back with a scissors which she used to stab the deceased at the back of the right ear. The latter collapsed and was declared dead on the scene.” Backhoff added that after the incident the woman fled the scene.
“The investigating officer managed to trace the woman to Warden in the Free State and brought her back to Joburg, where she was charged with murder and later detained,” she added.
Backhoff continued that eventually the trial started in the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court where the accused was successfully convicted of murder.
“We are happy that the accused was finally sentenced to 12 years’ direct imprisonment without the option of a fine and further declared unfit to possess a firearm. We hope that this will serve as a deterrent to others that crime does not pay,” Backhoff concluded.
Details: Brixton Police Station, 011 248 5520
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