Man kills 'wife', hangs himself
2003-05-23 11:40
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Pretoria - A man beat to death the woman with whom he was living and then hanged himself from a tree in Capital Park in the early hours on Friday, said police.
The couple was unemployed and homeless, said inspector Percy Morokane. They had been living in a deserted one-roomed railway house on property owned by Spoornet.
Morokane said the man beat the woman on the head repeatedly with a blunt object inside the house, which he then apparently set alight.
He then went and hanged himself with a piece of wire about 500m away from the house.
It was not known if the couple was married.
- SAPA