Mother mourns son’s mysterious death
Paramedics counted over three dozen stab wounds on his body.
A distraught 63-year-old pensioner, Doreen Beyi, from Thokoza has opened up about the six-year grief she has been through surrounding the unsolved mysterious murder of her 33-year-old son Xolani Beyi on the Easter weekend of April 5, 2015.
The pensioner said her youngest daughter had left home in Thokoza early that morning to check on her older brother at his house in Phumula, where she found his lifeless body inside the house slumped face down in a kneeling position on a sofa in the living room.
Paramedics called to the scene by neighbours declared Xolani dead. They counted over three dozen stab wounds on his body. A blood-stained scatter cushion he was suspected to have used to ward off the knife wounds was found by the police lying on the floor next to his dead body.
Alberton SAPS detectives who took over the investigations further searched around the house and saw a broken toilet window, which they believed the suspected killer/s may have used to gain entry into the house.
According to Doreen, the killer/s looted several items from the house, including R15 000 his mother had hidden in a wardrobe in one of the bedrooms. Doreen said that her son did not even know there was money hidden in his house.
The mother last saw Xolani at the family event just hours before he was murdered. After the event, he was accompanied by members of the family to the local tax rank to go to Phumula.
“After that evening, I never saw my son alive again,” said the grieving mother.
According to Capt Matshomela, the spokesperson for Alberton SAPS, the case has baffled detectives at the precinct who have not been able to trace the culprit/s, despite managing to get fingerprints on the crime scene.
“The case remains inconclusive and the docket is still open. This is despite the fact that there was tangible evidence lifted by detectives on the crime scene. That evidence could not be matched with any of the crime specimen available in the SAPS’ national crime database.”
A close family friend and neighbour, Jeanette Maseko, remains Doreen’s pillar of strength, who hopes the culprits will be brought to book. “All I want is to see justice for my son,” she said.
