Cape Town – The fourth suspect who was recently arrested in the Hillary Gardee murder case reportedly confessed to killing the IT student to the police.
Police confirmed the arrest of 36-year-old Hlabirwa Rasie Nkuna on Friday last week.
He was reportedly arrested in Kwa-Thema.
IOL reported on Tuesday that Nkuna, who abandoned his bail application at the Delmas Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga on Monday, confessed that he was acting alone when he killed Hillary.
The report alleged that the suspect used his Facebook account to prey on women and lure them to their deaths.
He faced various charges, including four counts of murder, possession of an unlicensed firearm with ammunition, kidnapping and robbery with aggravating circumstances, the report said.
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The case was postponed to August 22 for further police investigation while the police were yet to explain the impact of Nkuna’s confession to the murder case.
The suspect was also linked to the murder of three other women, reported The Citizen.
“We were looking for this person and information went through last week after he was linked with another murder of a woman. He was arrested in Gauteng on Thursday night. We recovered a firearm that he was in possession of. He confessed to killing three other women including two who were killed last month, one of which was a police officer. We’re dealing with a man who is very brutal and heartless,” the report quoted Mpumalanga police commissioner Lieutenant-General Semakaleng Manamela.
Hillary went missing on April 29 after a shopping trip to a Spar near her home in Mbombela, Mpumalanga.
She was found dead in a field outside Mbombela, Mpumalanga on May 3 with a gun wound on her head.
Suspects Sipho Lawrence Mkatshwa, Philemon Lukhele and Mduzuzi Gama were arrested and charged with murder, rape, conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping and possession of illegal firearms.
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