BY Obakeng Maje

The cold body of a 53-year-old warrant officer was found at the back of his house in the early hours of Saturday 02 June 2012 at about 5:00 in Tlhabane.

According to the information that was received from the wife at the time was that the police officer left his house on the evening of Friday 01 June 2012. She claimed that he told her he was going to pay someone that he owed money. 

The deceased Warrant officer, Patric Lesele, who worked at Tlhabane court never, returned home, she informed the police.

 “The deceased police’s wife alleged that she made an attempt to call him but his phone rang inside the house.   According to her she woke up the following day to go and hang her laundry in the wee hours of Saturday morning, only to find the body of deceased husband lying on the ground at the back door of their house with a wound next to his right eye” Brigadier Ngubane said. 

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

 The police were called to the scene for investigations and the police crime scene expects, suspected foul-play and also found loose ends on the information given to the police.  This led to the arrest of the deceased police’s wife along with her boyfriend this morning.

They will appear before the Magistrate’s Court in Rustenburg on 6 June 2012 on the count of murder.