The wife and son of a man who was killed in what was initially thought to have been a farm attack have been arrested in connection with his death.
On Thursday,
that Strydom's wife, Rieta, 65, and one son, Hendrik, 25, had been arrested and appeared in the Louis Trichardt Magistrate's Court on a charge of murder on Friday last week."This is a very complicated case," Ngoepe said."As we are speaking, our investigators are still following up [leads]."According to Netwerk24, Strydom died in strange circumstances on a smallholding in the Ridgeway area.
At the time, Rieta, Hendrik and Strydom's other son, Pieter, 24, were reportedly interrogated by police. Rieta is the stepmother of two of the sons. reported that Strydom's two sons had gone looking for him when it became dark and had found his body lying face down near his bakkie. They then reportedly turned him around and found that he was dead. His firearm was missing. The shooting was, however, a mystery.
Rieta told the local paper that she was"upset" about rumours that she was one of the main murder suspects.quoted as sayingRieta reiterated this in an interview with Afrikaans Sunday newspaper Rapport in 2016."What money?" she wanted to know. Rieta and Hendrik have been released on bail of R1 000 each and will appear in the Louis Trichardt Magistrate's Court again on May 24, Netwerk24 reported.
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