Police exhumed granny’s body and grandson arrested

The Bloemfontein K9 Unit, Bloemfontein Local Criminal Record Centre together with Tseseng police successfully exhumed the body of an 88-year-old woman that was buried in a shallow grave inside her yard at Malekunutu Village allegedly by her grandson aged 32.

It’s alleged that on 12 July 2023 the community members became anxious when they did not see the elderly woman from her house for days and approached the police to report her missing. Police together with the community including Anti-Stock Theft members began with the search. The grandson started running away from the community and police upon realising that they were searching for his granny.

The team finally caught the young man who was questioned and it was established that he buried the granny’s body inside the yard. It is alleged that the granny was sick and passed on. The grandson, therefore without burial money, buried the old woman without informing neither family members nor police even though he collected the granny’s pension money. It is reported that the granny was last seen on 23 June 2023.

The suspect is arrested for defeating the ends of justice and violation of a corpse. The post-mortem is yet to be conducted to establish the cause of death.

Source: South African Police Service