Johannesburg - The investigating officer in the murder case of Nkululeko ‘Flabba ‘ Habedi has testified that the accused told him she had been pushed earlier that evening by her hip hop artist boyfriend, and that had caused “abdominal pains.”
Constable Seila Shadrick Malaka, who is stationed at the Alexandra police station, took the stand in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
He was testifying in the trial against Sindi Manqele, accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death at his home on March 9.
Malaka said Manqele had shown her stitches on her left arm and said she had some pains.
When he asked her how she got the injuries, “she said she sustained the injuries when the deceased pushed her in the street in Sandton and on her arm she cut herself with a bottle”.
He told the court that Manqele was treated at the Alexandra Clinic.
Manqele has pleaded not guilty and instead claims she was defending herself from her violent lover.
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