Kidnap and Murder accused awaits sentencing
The men were arrested in 2014 after police found one of them driving a vehicle that belong to a murder victim.
WITBANK– Four men found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of two men in Middelburg, are set to hear their fate soon.
The four accused, who kidnapped and murdered two men, will appear before the Circuit of the Pretoria High Court sitting at Middelburg for sentencing on Monday, August 28, 2017.
Thabang Elvis Nthako (36), Samson Bhuti Makuwa (25), George Maswanganyi (27) and Bheki David Mokoena (33), were found guilty on charges of kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances and murder during a judgment on August 11, 2017.
They were arrested in November 2014 after police found Nthako driving a motor vehicle belonging to one of the murdered victims, Phillip Daniel Monkwe aged 50, who had been reported missing. When a probe was instituted, it led to the arrest of the other three, Makuwa, Maswanganyi and Mokoena. Further probe also revealed that Monkwe had given the accused a lift when along the way they held him at gunpoint and instructed him to drive in the direction of an old mine shaft.
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Upon arrival, he was blind-folded then forced out the vehicle, placed near the mine shaft which was about 45m deep, then told to jump into the shaft, where he fell to his death. During the investigation, the accused pointed out to the police the above-mentioned scene (shaft). While retrieving Monkwe’s remains, police discovered another body which was later identified as that of David Vusi Majola aged 39, who had been reported as missing. The four men were later linked to Majola’s death who was hijacked and
thrown into the same shaft.
