Centurion teen alleged accomplice in triple murder

Police have confirmed that a 17-year-old teenage boy has confessed to having killed three people, along with his mother and two other suspects.

It is alleged that the bodies were buried in a shallow grave in a house in Olievenhoutbosch extension 26.

“Police have [yet] to do the preliminary investigative processes of taking and confirming the statements as well as pointing the scene,” said police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters.

Peters said a forensic team from their science laboratory was at the scene and have started digging.

“We need to establish that there indeed are human remains as per the suspect’s confession. This digging will take some time; after the digging, if we find that there are bodies, we will need to do a forensics determination of the bodies.”

On Tuesday evening police received information from one of the three detainees that he and three other suspects, including his mother, have killed and buried the bodies, according to Peters.

A community member, Kgomotso Khalusi, said she received a call from a local sangoma whom the boy had allegedly confessed to.

“When I arrived there, we found the teenage boy, whom I told needed to tell me the truth before I could help him. He then told us about the murder and burial of the three people in his yard,” said Khalusi.

“He told us three people were buried in the yard. One was the 70-year-old man who was his mother’s boyfriend; the second was the mother’s lover, who helped her kill the boyfriend; and the third was the teenager’s brother, who wanted to tell police of the murder.”