National News: Human skull in bag leads to man’s arrest
A 21 year-old man was arrested by police in Lebowakgomo outside Polokwane for violating his mother’s grave.
Lt. Col. Moatshe Ngoepe, Limpopo police spokesperson said the incident occurred at Dithabaneng village in Ga-Mphahlele area. The man is said to have started digging up his mother’s grave in December 2017.
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He finally exhumed her remains in January 2018 and took them home with him. His mother has been buried in the cemetery since her passing in 2001.
The man was reported to the police when members of the community noticed him carrying a human skull on 5 March.
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Police acted swiftly and discovered a human skeleton in his house. A large number of cattle bones were also found in the suspect’s house.
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Preliminary investigations have revealed that the suspect sometimes carries his mother’s skull inside a bag when he leaves the house because he believed that will protect him from any danger.
The investigation is ongoing.
The suspect will appear before Lebowakgomo Magistrate’s Court soon on a charge of violating a grave.
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