Pretoria - “Two people who were dearly loved were inhumanly murdered. Their dreams came to an end that day and our dreams became nightmares. No one deserves to die in such a manner.”
This was part of a letter submitted to the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, on Monday by the family of Piet Beetge, who was brutally murdered alongside his wife Eva, in their Capital Park home in December 2015.
The court earlier heard that Bonolo Gwendolene Lekalakala, 20 was so desperate to kill her mother and her stepfather that when the deadly Blue Death insect killer she laced their drinks with did not work, she had them both strangled with an USB and a cellphone charger cable, before dumping their bodies in the Hennops River in Centurion.
Lekalakala, gave no reason as to why she wanted them dead.
She told Judge Neil Tuchten that she and her two co-accused - her boyfriend Raymond (Thapelo) Molokomme, 25, and Nicholas Kgaugelo Rapelego, also 25 - planned to kill her parents.
They at first laced the pair’s drinks with Blue Death. But when it did not work they strangled them on December 26, 2015.
While Lekalakala pleaded guilty and was convicted of the double murder, her two co-accused still have to plead to the charges against them.
“I told Thapelo we should kill my parents. I went to town and bought poison.”
She said her mother and stepfather were sitting in the lounge, drinking and her stepfather asked her to pour him another drink. “I then mixed Amarula with the poison and gave them each their drinks. My stepfather drank it all and he poured himself another glass. My mother did not drink all of hers.”
The stepfather went to have a nap. Lekalakala locked the dogs up and switched off the power to the house. She then allowed her co-accused into the house.
“Kgaugelo grabbed my mother around the neck and kicked her legs. My mother fell to the ground and Thapelo put his hand over her mouth so that she could not scream. Kgaugelo asked for a shoe lace but I gave him a USB cable. They strangled her.”
Her stepfather was also strangled.
She will be sentenced on Thursday.