BY Obakeng Maje

The police are investigating a case of Murder after a body of a 53-year-old police officer was found at the back of his house in the early hours of Saturday 02  June 2012 at about 5:00 in Tlhabane.

It is alleged that the police officer left his house on the evening of Friday 01 June 2012 telling his wife that he is going to pay someone that he owes money. 

That night the deceased Warrant officer Patric Lesele who was working in Tlhabane court never returned home.

  The deceased’s wife tried to call her husband but to her surprise the phone rang in the house. 

The woman woke up the following day to go and hang her laundry and only to find her deceased husband lying on the ground at the back door of their house with a wound next to his right eye. 

“The woman informed her son to call the ambulance and when the ambulance arrived at the scene the police officer was certified dead” Bigadier Ngubane said. 

The police were called to the scene and they are investigating a Murder case.

So far no one has been arrested and investigations continues.