Hit with fists, assaulted with a wooden plank and hit over the head five times with a spade before being loaded into the boot of his own car, Mkhululi Dube could not have foreseen the plot to kill him when he arrived at a house in Motherwell.
In a surprise turn of events, one of the five men accused of the brutal murder of a Motherwell man whose burnt remains were discovered in bushes at St Georges Strand turned state witness when his trial was meant to start on Monday.