“She was crying and sounding terrified, begging me to borrow R3,000 and send it to her as quickly as we could. She did not talk long and the phone was apparently taken from her.
“I heard a man demanding the money if we did not want my daughter to be killed. I begged him to give us until the next morning for us to borrow the money and send it to him.
Police showed us pictures on the phone and we identified the shirt and the shoes worn by this criminal, sitting there in my daughter’s clothes.
Phindiwe Grey, victim s mother
Confessed Eastern Cape serial killer wore East London victim’s clothes to court By Lulamile Feni - 10 June 2021 Xolisa Sojada, who is facing three counts of murder and six counts of rape, at the Mthatha court. Image: ZIYANDA ZWENI
An East London mother, Phindiwe Grey, gave moving testimony on Wednesday about how her daughter, Nolonwabo Grey of Duncan Village, had been kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a man who had called her family and demanded R3,000 ransom for her release.
The 69-year-old widow’s pain echoed through her testimony in the Mthatha high court.
Her daughter was one of three young women murdered by the man dubbed the Qumbu Facebook serial rapist.