Family seeks closure for kidnapped child
Investigating officers also testified that Mnyambo took them to his house where he showed them four bottles of muthi containing the girl's remains.
MBOMBELA – The parents of three-year-old Lutricia Nkentjane, who went missing in October 2015, still await for justice to be served to their daughter’s alleged killers.
The girl’s father, Mr Smanga Moses Nkentjane, told Mpumalanga News that he will not find peace until he gets the chance to give his daughter a proper burial.
He adds that even though the men accused of his daughter’s disappearance have been arrested, it does not bring closure to the family.
“Even though they may go to jail, they will eat nice food there and come out with degrees and skills, but my daughter will never come back,” said Nkentjane.
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The six men accused of the murder and kidnapping of Lutricia include her uncle Louis Sithole, Sfiso Mazibe, Themba Mnyambo, Jabulani Ndlovu, Thembinkosi Maziya and Mandla Mokoena. They appeared in the Nelspruit High Court on Wednesday.
It was heard in court that Ndlovu took the police on a walk-through of the crime scene, a burned shack, where they allegedly saw the body of the girl in a black plastic bag.
Investigating officers also testified that Mnyambo took them to his house where he showed them four bottles of muthi containing the girl’s remains.
“The suspect took out four bottles which were white. Two of the bottles he showed us had a pink powder and some of the child’s brain in it. The other bottle had charcoal and parts of the girl’s lower left leg and the other with a brownish powder had her left hand,” said Maj Samson Shongwe.
The trial was postponed to October 30.
