KZN Father and Son Arrested for Multiple Murders As Dumped Body Found

• KZN police worked to connect a string of murders to a father and his son from January 2021
• The son, a 25-year-old, was arrested on an unlicenced firearm charge earlier this week and turned out to be the last person seen with a missing man
• A decomposed body was recovered from a demolished toilet pit in Mwolokohlo, Ndwedwe

KZN - A father and son are allegedly the suspects in multiple murders, including that of a 29-year-old man, a security guard and a pregnant woman.

The suspects, a 48-year-old man and his 25-year-old son, were taken into police custody on Thursday afternoon, 22 August 2024, in Nwedwe.

The suspects destroyed evidence, a toilet, in an attempt to hide the body that they had thrown into it. This was a tactic to cover their tracks in the village of Mwolokohlo.

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"Shrewd investigations uncovered that the suspects allegedly killed the 29-year-old man and dumped his body in a pit latrine before demolishing it. On Thursday, a search was conducted and a decomposing body was recovered," said Colonel Robert Netshiunda, the KZN police spokesman.

The two suspects are also connected to two murder cases: one involving a protection official who was killed in May this year and discovered dumped on the road, tied up with a rope, and another in January 2021, where they allegedly stabbed a man before ditching his body on the road just a few metres from their home

Inquiries are continuing to establish the details encircling the two men's alleged involvement in the killing of a pregnant woman in Umlazi.

The two alleged murderers are due to appear in the Ndwedwe Magistrate's Court on Monday.

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Briefly News also reported that five members of a KwaMashu gang, notorious for terrorising the community through a series of crimes, have been arrested. The gang gained notoriety on social media after a video went viral showing them wandering around KwaMashu and firing shots indiscriminately.

South Africans expressed relief at their capture, with some praising SAPS Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi for the arrests.

Source: Briefly News