An East London man who, after drinking two beers at a local shebeen, suffocated and slit the throat of his ex-girlfriend’s six-year-old son on suspicion that the boy was not his, has pleaded guilty to the murder.
Scores of Bhongweni community members blocked Commissioner Street outside the East London Magistrate's Court on Thursday to oppose bail for the killer of little Sinobom Tywantsi, 6.
There are some crimes that are so gut-wrenching that it is hard not to despair. One such is the case we reported this week where a five-year-old boy slept all night on his mom’s lap, innocent to the fact she had been shot dead while watching TV and his dad had been slain in the bedroom next door. Then there is six-year-old Sinobom Tywantsi who lost his life this week after his throat was viciously slit.
Six-year-old Sinobom Tywantsi was murdered, allegedly by his father, on Tuesday afternoon at Bhongweni location, after the man questioned the boy’s paternity. For six years the man was Sinobom’s role model. The boy was allegedly killed in a jealous rage after his father sent messages to Sinobom’s mother, his ex-girlfriend, threatening to kill their son if she did not admit to her infidelity.
“I know the child is another man’s . I’m now at the bush with the child . Choose to either apologise to me or I kill the boy . It is done.” These were the chilling words texted to the mother of six-year-old Sinobom Tywantsi by the man the child believed was his father. The boy’s body was later found in the bush at Bhongweni township near the King Phalo Airport in East London on Tuesday afternoon.