Cape Town – A 20-year-old woman from Mmakau Village outside Brits in North West is set to appear in court on Monday after she confessed to hiring two hitmen to kill her parents and siblings on Tuesday, 6 December 2016.
Police spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Amanda Funani said in a statement that the woman was expected to appear in the Brits magistrate’s court with the two alleged hitmen.
The pair was arrested in Brits and Soshanguve after the woman went to Mmakau Police Station and admitted to killing her family members.
The murders took place in December 2016. At that time, the woman, who was a teenager, told the police that she went outside to dispose of the water she had been using to wash dishes.
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“Whilst outside, she heard gunshots inside the house and went back to investigate, but the suspects allegedly shot her on the thigh and fled the scene with a family car. The daughter then alerted neighbours who informed the police,” said Funani
When the police arrived, they “found lifeless bodies of a 42-year-old father who was a police officer, his wife (40), 18-year-old pregnant daughter and six-year-old son lying in a pool of blood”.
The woman and her two accomplices both aged 23, are facing five counts of murder and armed robbery.
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