Murder suspect's backyard dug up in search for victim

Picture: Pretoria News

Picture: Pretoria News

Published Jan 20, 2017

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Pretoria – Police officers and forensics pathology service are in Stinkwater, Hammanskraal to exhume a body of 38-year-old Meisie Molefe.

She was reported missing by her boyfriend on October 27 last year at Temba police station.

He claimed she went missing on the October 8.

On Thursday, the boyfriend handed himself over and confessed to the police that he had murdered his girlfriend, burnt her body then buried her in his backyard.

He was arrested and charged with her murder and will appear in court within the next 48 hours.

Pretoria News

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