Durban - Within hours of a woman being found dead in a sugar cane field with a bullet hole between her eyes, the alleged perpetrators were identified, tracked down and arrested near Scottburgh.
Police spokesman, Colonel Jay Naicker, said a woman in her early thirties was found dead in a sugar cane field in Thafeni Ward, Amandawe, near Scottburgh, on Wednesday. Naicker said she had been shot once in the head.
Scottburgh SAPS detectives, Sergeant Njabulo Latha, Warrant Officer Yugen Moodley and Constable Weidon Govender, used their informer network to track down the people allegedly involved.
“The deceased was one of two women who had been seen leaving a tavern in Park Rynie in the company of two men the night before,” he said.
Investigations led detectives to a homestead in Thafeni Ward in Dududu. They were accompanied by Warrant Officer Brian Khumalo and Sergeant Kenneth Glover of the Umzinto K9 Unit.
“The alleged gunman walked out of a room straight into the hands of police. A 9mm pistol was found on him. A thorough search of the premises resulted in the arrest of the second suspect as well as a woman who had been seen leaving the tavern with the deceased. They were hiding in different rooms in the homestead,” Naicker said.
The gun had been reported stolen during a burglary in Umkomaas in 2007.
The three were expected to appear in the Scottburgh Magistrate’s Court on Friday on a charge of murder.
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