A 28-year-old South African truck driver appeared before Maun Magistrates Court on Tuesday charged with a single count of Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs. The suspect, Thapelo Skhosana, who is a delivery man for Woolworths, was allegedly busted by the boys in blue with three packages containing a greenish substance suspected to be dagga. He was […]
A 34-year-old Maun woman accused of almost frying her boyfriend’s penis with boiling cooking oil in a cold-hearted attack appeared before Magistrates Court this week. In a heated domestic dispute that played out in the evening of 19 November last year, Tebagano Masia is said to have waited for her lover, Boikuelo Mokgethi, 40, to […]
MURDER SUSPECT: Amos
A man who allegedly stabbed his ex-lover to death and set her new boyfriend’s house on fire is expected back at Maun Magistrates court on January 26th.
It is alleged that Philip Amos (31) from Khwai village murdered his ex-girlfriend, Phemelo Lekgoa, who is also the mother of his children on January 10th, 2021.
Applying for the accused to be denied bail the stand in Investigating Officer (IO), Andrew Thoki Koitsiwe, said investigations were still at preliminary stages and that some witnesses have not been interviewed.
“The accused person and the deceased reside in the same neighborhood, they also come from Khwai village. It would not be in the interest of society for him to be seen roaming around before the bereaved family completes their burial arrangements,” explained Koitsewe.