A policewoman disappeared after SABC’s Morning Live prematurely aired news of her impending arrest yesterday morning.

According to Lowvelder, the sergeant, attached to the Bushbuckridge police detective unit, was supposed to be arrested at the station just before 08:00.

She is suspected of hiring hitmen to kill her estranged husband and a pregnant woman believed to be his girlfriend in February last year. A group of armed men attacked the husband at his home in Boikhotso near Bushbuckridge, demanding his bank card. He told them it was with his girlfriend, who lived in Zoeknog a few kilometres away.

The attackers then abducted him and took his cars to drive to his girlfriend’s house, where they forced her to hand over his bank card.

“They robbed the woman of R4 000 in cash, took the man’s bank card from her and shot her dead. They then took the man to an open area near Dwarsloop and murdered him as well before fleeing the scene,” says provincial police spokesperson Brigadier Donald Mdhluli.

The murders were reported to the police, and investigations led to the arrest of four men between June and November last year. One of the suspects pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 77 years in prison, while the other three are still on trial.

The suspects’ names and next court dates were unavailable at the time of publishing.

After further investigations, detectives from the provincial police headquarters in Mbombela were preparing to arrest the sergeant yesterday, but they discovered their plan had already been aired on TV.

“We were bound to call off the operation to arrest the suspect after discovering it had already been aired on SABC’s Morning Live. The suspect was neither at her home nor at work. It is subsequently believed that she got the information about her impending arrest and disappeared into thin air. We can confirm that we are still looking for her,” adds Mdhluli.

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