Central SA
North West man gets 15 years for girlfriend’s murder─── ZENANDE MPAME 15:38 Mon, 05 Jun 2023
The Provincial Police Commissioner of the North West, Sello Kwena, praised the sentencing of a murderer who killed his girlfriend.
The High Court in Pretoria sentenced Ishmael Mofolo (44) to 15 years of direct imprisonment on Thursday (1/6).
Evidence was presented in court demonstrating that on 4 April 2022, the defendant's brother contacted him to inquire as to why he and his girlfriend had not shown up at Letlhabile Mall as scheduled. He hung up the phone after telling his brother what a terrible thing he had done.
The accused was living at their parent’s house, so the brother and sister went there. When they arrived, they knocked on the door, but nobody answered.
After forcing the door open, they discovered Florence Bongo's body inside the home, drenched in blood.
It was determined that Mofolo attempted suicide by drinking poison.
He was arrested and sent to hospital, where he was kept under police guard before his trial started.
