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7 - 14 February 2019
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Double murder traumatises community
‘I came out from my room and heard two male voices screaming at different times from around 5am. They sounded like they were in a lot of pain’ Troyeville – Residents have described how they were woken up to screams in a backyard shack where two men aged 30 and 40, were allegedly kidnapped by two men, tortured for hours and eventually killed last Tuesday morning. Police have launched a manhunt for the suspects, and a 30-year-old woman was arrested. She was allegedly present during the torture and cleaned the shack before police officers arrived at the scene. The pair was tortured after their captors, who were reportedly known to them, accused them of stealing a gun and laptops.
A neighbour, Sanele Ngwenya said he heard the men begging for mercy. “I came out from my room and heard two male voices screaming at different times from around 5am. They sounded like they were in a lot of pain. They were saying they did not know where the gun was, nor did they know where the laptops were,” he said. Another neighbour, Gideon Buthelezi said he saw the 30-year-old woman cleaning the shack after the screaming ended. “She was clearing the shack and cleaning; she walked out with a blanket soaked in blood; she was also in the shack during
Captain Moscow Shihambe inspects the murder scene in Troyeville
the screams and obviously knows what happened, that is why she was cleaning the shack,” Buthelezi said. The small shack is situated at the backyard of a seemingly deserted Troyeville property. Neighbours said the shack was recently erected. Long after the cries stopped, police discovered two dead men buried in a shallow grave inside the corrugated iron sheet structure. A neighbour, who asked not to
be named, said he was one of the first people at the scene. He said he saw the two suspects running from the scene with a crowbar. “When the police dug up those guys they found them with their legs and hands bound. There was no way they could have survived that beating,” he said. Police spokesperson Captain Moscow Shihambe said the 30-year-old female suspect went to the Jeppe
police station to report that two men were killed and buried in a shack. Shihambe said the woman was arrested after she gave police inconsistent versions of events. “She gave police different versions before admitting that she was also inside the shack when the murders happened. She was arrested while the bodies of the two men were taken to a government mortuary,” Captain Shihambe said.