Welkom – A 24-year-old Zimbabwean national has been sentenced to eight years behind bars for killing his father, Free State police said in a statement on Thursday.
Police spokesperson, Captain Stephen Thakeng, said Peter Mabaso chased his father with a knife on October 15 last year, fatally stabbing him when he caught up with him. His father was in his late 50s and lived in Phomolong Village in Welkom.
Thakeng said Victor Mabaso's wife was able to point out to police the direction the two ran in when they arrived on the scene. The victim was found "around the corner" with a stab wound on the left side of his chest.
He was declared dead on the scene.
The Welkom Regional Court convicted Mabaso of murder and sentenced him to eight years in jail. He was also declared unfit to possess a firearm.