Blood-soaked clothes, more than R10,000 in cash and 40 mandrax tablets were some of the items recovered from a VW Polo when it was pulled over by the police near the John Tallant bridge in July 2019.
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.
Lured to a house in Motherwell after being asked to deliver drugs, Mkhululi Dube could not have foreseen that he would later be assaulted, huddled into the boot of his own car and driven to St Georges Strand where his charred remains would be found four days later.