Boss killed in hotel room
2008-03-26 16:32
Durban - A Pietermaritzburg hotel manager, who was bound and gagged, was found dead in his hotel room on Wednesday morning, police said.
Superintendent Henry Budhram said that the body of 38-year-old Mark Truter was discovered by cleaners at Pietermaritzburg's Thistle Hotel in Boschoff Street on Wednesday morning.
Truter's hands and feet had been bound and he had plaster taped over his mouth.
Budhram said initial investigations had revealed that Truter had retired to his room shortly after midnight on Tuesday after cashing up the day's takings.
The keys to the hotel safe were missing as was an undisclosed sum of money.
He said it appeared that Truter had been suffocated as he had no visible injuries.
- SAPA