| Swift arrest of the suspect who burned girlfriend to death and attempted to kill her daughter | |
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| 2025/11/06 | |
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Media Statement DURBAN - A swift response by the Vryheid K9 and Hlobane police officers has led to the arrest of a 48-year-old man, a few moments after he allegedly burnt his 41-year-old girlfriend to death, and hacked her 28-year-old daughter with an axe before raping her 13-year-old daughter at Shanelweni Reserve in the Ngome policing precincts in the early hours of Thursday, 06 November 2025. Reports indicate that a 13-year-old girl was asleep with her elder sister when she was woken up by a noise at the door at around 01:00 on Thursday morning. She then noticed that the boyfriend of her mother was hacking her sister with an axe. The brave girl attempted to intervene but the axe-wielding man stopped assaulting her sister and dragged the 13-year-old out of the house. As he was dragging her, she noticed a smoke coming from the room which her mother was sleeping in. The suspect dragged her to the nearby bushes where he raped her, before releasing her just before dawn. Upon receiving the information, Vryheid K9 members, working together with police from Hlobane police station, conducted an operation which resulted in the arrest of the suspect at KwaMnyathi area. The suspect was charged with murder, attempted murder as well as rape, and he will appear in the Louwsburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday, 07 November 2025. Ends
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