Segametsi’s murderer sentenced 15 years behind bars

• Apr 19, 2022

Rustenburg – After three years of delaying tactics, Thabo Moabi was finally sentenced to 15 years in jail before the Bafokeng Magistrates’ Court on Monday 7 March.

Moabi murdered his 31-year-old girlfriend, Segametsi Molefe, on 26 March 2019. Molefe passed away due to the injuries she sustained after he brutally assaulted her. 

After the murder, Moabi requested his younger brother to get petrol in order to burn her body, but he refused, and the police were called to the scene. Police members searched the house and found Molefe’s body underneath the bed on which Moabi was sitting, and was arrested.

Molefe’s 5-year-old child who was staying with her mother in Moabi’s house was traumatised. She has since been reunited with family members.

The investigation was difficult due to the fact that the accused never showed remorse and used different strategies to delay the court procedure, for instance insisting on changing his legal representatives all the time.

The case dragged on for three years. During this time, he also frequently indicated that he was ill and was hospitalised from time to time.

“Due to his aggressive nature, members of the public were afraid of him and did not want to submit statements regarding the incident, even neighbours did not want to testify against him.

The mere fact that he also did not even phone for medical attention, is an indication of the level of brutality the deceased had to endure at his hands,” the police report reads. 

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