âNYATSIâ DENIES KNOWING MURDER ACCUSED DAD! JOSHUA SEBOLA
Comments A witness Semakaleng Lebo Mehlape has denied that she is having a love affair nor met with the murder accused Lucas Phasha. Photo by Joshua Sebola .
THE 39-year-old woman that murder suspect Lucas Phasha (52) claimed was his girlfriend has denied knowing or even having an affair with him.
Phasha, whose accused of allegedly brutally killing his four children on 17 February last year, claimed he was at a guest house with his nyatsi the night of the gruesome incident.
Semakaleng Mehlape from Lebowakgomo in Limpopo who uses false names on Facebook such as Morwesi Mphahlele was called to testify before the Limpopo High Court in Polokwane on Friday, 21 May.
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He insists the conspiracy against him was led by his half-brother and a local businessman.
Phasha claims he felt something terrible might have happened on the day the children were discovered.
Former attorney Lucas Phasha - on trial for the killing of his four young children - told the Polokwane High Court in Limpopo he was framed by his half-brother and others because of factional battles in his village.
He told Judge Gerrit Muller his half-brother, Nelson Phasha, was leading a faction against the local traditional authority over mining development and chieftainship.
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Lucas said he was of royalty, hence there was bad blood with his half-brother and others.
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Lucas Phasha has admitted to confronting his wife armed with an axe and a knife a day before his four children were killed.
He contradicted himself on cellphone records after the discovery of the children s bodies.
The State believes Phasha killed the children and fled the village.
Former attorney Lucas Phasha admitted in the Polokwane High Court in Limpopo on Thursday that he barged into his wife s parental home armed with an axe and a knife a day before his four young children were killed.
Phasha, 52, is standing trial for the murder of his children – Katlego, 9, Joyce,7, Tshepo, 5, and Adel, 3. The three children were found hacked to death by an axe, and the youngest one had her head bludgeoned with a huge stone at Ga-Phasha village in the Sekhukhune district on 17 February 2020.