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Five due in court over farm murder
By Zainul Dawood
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DURBAN - FIVE people will appear in the Howick Magistrateâs Court on Wednesday in connection with the murder of Howick farmer, Trevor Murphy.
They were arrested in Pietermaritzburg on Monday morning. Murphy, 50, was at his residence on Wendover Farm in Karkloof when three men attacked him and stabbed him multiple times on Friday morning.
They robbed him of his cellphone, firearm, TV, groceries and laptops before they fled the scene in his Ford Ranger bakkie. Murphy died in hospital.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker said Howick SAPS detectives, Pietermaritzburg Public Order Police Unit and security officers from Magma security, followed up on information that Murphyâs vehicle was spotted in the Pietermaritzburg CBD.
MUM, SON MURDER SHOCK!
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A police
search is under way for suspects who killed a mother and her son at a farm
outside Nelspruit, in Mpumalanga, on Saturday.
A 64-year
old woman, identified as Anna-Marie Botha and her son, Ruan Britz, aged 34,
were murdered during a robbery, police spokesperson Colonel Donald Mdhluli said
on Sunday.
Mdhluli
said emergency services received a call about the incident at the Valley Farm
around 18:30 on Saturday.
On arrival,
a male and female were found lying motionless, he said. The
two seemed to have been hit with an object and, unfortunately, they were
certified dead at the scene.
DA condemns murder of mother and son on Mpumalanga farm
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The DA strongly condemns the murder of Anna-Marie Botha and her son, Ruan Britz, during a farm attack in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga on Saturday. Botha and her son were murdered during robbery at the Valley Farm outside Nelspruit.
André Damons
It is believed the two were killed during a robbery.
The provincial police commissioner condemned the killings.
A police search is under way for suspects who killed a mother and her son at a farm outside Nelspruit, in Mpumalanga, on Saturday.
A 64-year old woman, identified as Anna-Marie Botha and her son, Ruan Britz, aged 34, were murdered during a robbery, police spokesperson Colonel Donald Mdhluli said on Sunday.
Mdhluli said emergency services received a call about the incident at the Valley Farm around 18:30 on Saturday.
On arrival, a male and female were found lying motionless, he said. The two seemed to have been hit with an object and, unfortunately, they were certified dead at the scene.