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.