Despite this, the provincial police spokesperson, Tessa Jansen, says the police are using every resource at their disposal in this case. In their latest attempt to crack this case, Jansen reveals that the police now hope to put out a missing person’s notice of Lekhu in national papers.  

Speaking to OFM News, Tessa Jansen said that so far, police have managed to get a hold of Lekhu’s cellphone records through an application according to Section 205 of the Criminal Procedures Act. The Act gives officials access to phone users’ metadata in phone records. This reveals who they have communicated with, when, and where. In Lekhu’s case, records show that his mobile lost network signal about five minutes after the time he was last seen alive. She says the police in her region have also made an application to put up a missing person’s notice of Lekhu in national newspapers and they’ve also searched open spaces, hospitals, and mortuaries in the province, with no success.

The 42-year-old Lekhu was last seen in Kimberley’s Central Business District on Thursday 11 April at around 10:00 after a friend allegedly dropped him off at a car dealership in Du Toitspan Road. His brother, Poka Thabo Lekhu, then reported him missing two days later after the family had not heard anything from him since Thursday. Poka previously told OFM News that it at this stage seems that Rrabatho’s phone has been off since Thursday when he was dropped off at the said dealership, as Poka said he tried to call his brother on the day he went missing at around 11:21 and already by then, his phone was off. At the time of his disappearance, Rrabatho was wearing shorts, a T-shirt as well as Adidas flip flops. Members of the public with any information are requested to contact the Investigating Officer D/W/O Markgraaff at 082-302-0407 or the communication officer at 084-985-4883.

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