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Umzinto case: Man to be charged
05/10/2007 11:08 - (SA)
Durban - A Durban man will be charged in connection the Umzinto serial killings, police said on Friday.
Police spokesperson Superintendent Zandra Hechter said the man, who was taken in for questioning on Wednesday evening, would be formally charged on Friday and was expected to appear in the Umzinto Magistrate's Court on Monday.
"The task team also linked this man with the killings after intensive investigation since he was taken in for questioning on Wednesday afternoon," Hechter said.
The 27-year-old man was picked up in Durban's Inanda area.
Initially police said he was "being questioned" and had not been arrested.
The bodies of eight women have been found in the sugarcane fields surrounding Umzinto's Shayamoya township since the beginning of September.
Police initially arrested five people, three women and two men, in connection with the murders. Two were later released and two men and a woman appeared in the Umzinto Magistrate's Court on charges of abduction and murder last week.
Investigations have taken police as far north as Kwadakuza (formerly Stanger) and as far south as Port St Johns, where the alleged kingpin of the group hails from.
The Daily Dispatch on Thursday reported that two women's bodies had been found in the Majola Tea Estate near Port St Johns in February and April.
The newspaper said police were investigating whether there were any links between the Majola Tea Plantation killings and those in Umzinto.
However, Hechter said she could not comment on the newspaper's report.
She also refused to deny the link.
- SAPA
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