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A Northern Cape man will spend 25 years behind bars for murdering his girlfriend.
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A man from Hartswater in the Northern Cape will spend 25 years behind bars after he beat his girlfriend to death with a panga and stabbed her 34 times with a knife.
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On Thursday, the Northern Cape High Court found Elvis Malebo, 26, guilty of brutally murdering Evelyn Mocumi, 27, on June 14 this year.
According to police spokesman Capt. Sergio Kock, Malebo found Mocumi with a 33-year-old man in their shack in the informal settlement of Asgat in Hartswater. Malebo went home to look for the weapons and threatened the man with the panga.
The man fled the scene and Malebo later murdered his girlfriend. He was arrested by Hartswater Police minutes later and remained in custody until his sentencing.
He pleaded guilty and received 25 years for the murder and 12 months for the assault on the man. The sentences will be executed at the same time.
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