06 Jul 2022

Molepolole police have launched a manhunt for a man suspected to have murdered another 31-year-old man of the village’s Garanta ward in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.

In an interview, Molepolole station commander, Superintendent Benedict Matlho said the deceased allegedly visited the 27-year-old suspect at his home, still at Garanta on Monday, where he found him and his brother basking at the evening fire.

It is alleged that the elder brother retired to bed, leaving the suspect in the company of the deceased. After a while it is alleged that an argument ensued and the suspect’s elder brother, who had gone to sleep, heard a loud noise and dashed outside, only to find the deceased’s motionless body lying on the ground beside the fire with visible wounds on the back of the head. At that time the suspect had already fled the scene. It is suspected a sharp object was used to hit him.

Supt Matlho said the matter was reported to police, whom upon arrival took the victim to Scottish Livingston Hospital where he was certified dead upon arrival.

He appealed to the public to come forward with information that could assist police arrest the suspect.

On another case, police are appealing to the public to help them identify the body of a woman currently lying at Scottish Livingston mortuary. The woman is suspected to be the victim of a hit and run incident that happened at Magokotswane ward in Molepolole on July 2.

Meanwhile, police are still looking for the murder suspect of a 19-year-old woman of Goo Ntloedibe ward in Molepolole, who was killed at Ntsweng location on June 26.

After the victim’s body had been lying at Scottish Livingstone hospital mortuary for some time, Supt Matlho said her relatives finally managed to identify her and a postmortem was done last week with preliminary investigations suggesting that she was murdered. The police have since launched a manhunt for her boyfriend, who is allegedly on the run.

Supt Matlho has expressed concern over escalating murder incidents in Molepolole and surrounding areas.

He made an observation that in many instances people committed the horrendous crimes for failure to control their emotions whenever an altercation ensued.

He, therefore, appealed to public members to resort to seeking help whenever they had conflicts. Ends