One of the three people accused of killing a six-year-old girl and taking her body parts for muti was acquitted on Wednesday.
Thabile Mnisi, 33, from Masibekela near Komatipoort, was acquitted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the Nelspruit circuit of the High Court in Pretoria, a Sapa correspondent reported.
“There is not enough evidence… You are free to go,” Judge Collin Lamont said.
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The shocking revelation of how a six-year-old girl’s tongue, heart and intestines were cut out of her while she was still alive was revealed when a muti murder trial resumed.
The accused, Ms Thabile Mnisi (29), Ms Stella Sibongile Mnisi (46) and Mr Sifiso Wonder Vilakazi (21), appeared on charges of murder, kidnapping and the business proposition of selling children for their body parts on Monday. They are accused of the brutal murder and mutilation of Dimaksu Shabangu.
Despite the state stating that it had had a witness seeing Thabile take the child to the river, Lamot had discharged her as he said the state did not have enough evidence against her.
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In an unexpected incident worthy of the Spanish inquisition, a couple in eastern Siberia decided their acquaintance was a witch and attempted to burn her alive, though police stopped the impromptu auto-da-fe.
The rescue came not a moment too soon, as the couple were at that moment forcing the alleged witch headfirst into a burning stove in an abandoned building, Zabaikalsky Region police said Thursday.
The 46-year-old victim was hospitalized with severe burns to her face and hands, police said in a statement.
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Yet another woman was killed under suspicion of being a ‘tonhi’- woman involved in witchcraft practices — in Uparwara village of Naya Raipur on Wednesday.
Police have arrested four persons, all of whom are woman’s immediate relatives. It’s a case similar to one of Balrampur where a woman was killed by her neighbours when their kin was suffering from prolonged disease.
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Saburdevi Yadav was thrashed by locals Mahendra Yadav and Badri Yadav on the charge of practicing witchcraft. According to the Area Police Office Golbazar, the accused are already in the police net.
The accused thrashed Saburdevi leaving her seriously injured in the evening of Monday on the charge of witchery. She is already discharged after treatment at the local Shreeram Hospital, said her nephew Ashok Yadav.
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Rameshwar Yadav and his wife Kaushalya Devi were attacked by their neighbours and beaten to death Wednesday night in Koyriyadih village in Gaya district. Their daughter was also injured in the attack.
Three people, including the main accused Mohan Yadav, were arrested in connection with the case.Villagers told police that Mohan Yadav became suspicious that Rameshwar’s wife Kaushalya was practicing witchcraft and he blamed her for his son’s suffering for months.
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A middle-aged-woman was allegedly killed by her relatives who suspected that she practised witchcraft at Uparwara village in Naya Raipur on Wednesday.
Four of her relatives were arrested, police said. “Dulari Bai, 52 years old, was beaten and axed to death by her brother-in-law Mehattar Sahu, his wife Rajvantin Bai and his sons Madan and Manoj in front of her house this morning.”
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Prosecutors have filed a petition with the court to formally charge a 16-year-old boy in connection to the brutal death of Coriann Cervantes. There is still no word on what the charge may be because juvenile records are sealed.
According to investigators, the 16-year-old and Jose Reyes, 17, lured Cervantes, 15, to a vacant apartment in Clear Lake where the boys sexually assaulted and then murdered her as part of a satanic ritual.
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A gang of three persons have ruthlessly thrashed a woman accusing her of practicing witchcraft. Subardevi Yadav, the victim, was severely beaten up at her own house yesterday night.
According to police, the assailants have been identified as locals Mahendra Yadav, Jugana Yadav and Badri Yadav. They also attacked the other family members of Subardevi.
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The presenter of Culture radio’s popular radio program Shekpendeh Mr Obai Wurie is seriously sick as a result of what is alleged to be witchcraft activities.He has been hospitalized for the past three weeks suffering from unbearable pain with a swollen foot making him unable to walk.
Obai Wurie strongly believes that his enemies are responsible for his ailment particularly for his popular Shekpendeh program which exposes social and political issues inimical to the development of the state.
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