This, after the 40-year-old Thabo Mokoena finally experienced the full might of the law in the Bethlehem Magistrate Court yesterday, for a crime committed more than a decade ago. 

Mokoena who faces charges of murder, attempted murder and escape from custody, is said to have been involved in a 2004 farm murder at Dankbaardheid Farm in Bethlehem.

OFM News previously reported that provincial police spokesperson, Motantsi Makhele, had confirmed Mokoena and his four accomplices attacked three victims at Dankbaardheid Farm on 23 August 2004.

Johanna Van Niekerk and Tororo Elias Tsholo were fatally shot leaving the third victim seriously wounded.

Makhele said the suspects were all arrested whilst trying to flee the scene after the police were alerted by the injured victim. He, in a statement, highlighted that Mokoena, had escaped from Makwane Police Station in July 2005 - a day before their sentencing. The police have since been looking for him until he was again arrested on 12 August 2020 in Gauteng.

Three of Mokoena's co-accused were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and the fourth was sentenced to life imprisonment.

OFM News