Son sentenced for father’s murder
A man who hacked his father to death has been sentenced to five years imprisonment.
TWENTY-TWO-YEAR old Nkululeko Goodwell Giwu has been sentenced to five years imprisonment after he was found guilty of murdering his father, 60-year-old, Monwabisi Giwu.
The Queensburgh News first reported on the murder on Friday 14 February after neighbours of the Manor View Road man complained of a stench coming from Giwu’s house on Sunday 26 January.
A gruesome discovery was made by the neighbours after they gained entry into the house and found the body of Giwu hacked to death and already in a state of decomposition, suggesting that the man had been dead for several days.
Bellair SAPS were called to the scene and on investigation ascertained that numerous neighbours had seen the man arguing with his son earlier in the week.
A bloodied t-shirt and a garden pick were also found next to the body. Both items were sent for DNA analysis and several days later Nkululeko was arrested in Thembisa, on the East Rand of Johannesburg.
After four appearances at the Durban Magistrate’s court he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to five years imprisonment.
