Man stabs wife to death

Newtown – A 32-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed and killed his wife at Heritage Flats in Newtown, according to police.

  It is understood the couple, who had been married for four years, had earlier been drinking with a friend.

  Police spokesperson Captain Xoli Mbele said the friend left them drinking, and went to sleep.

  “In the morning the friend saw the husband leaving his flat, with blood all over his clothes. He then told the security guards to check on the wife. The security guards called the police and stopped the man from leaving the building.

Police later arrived and found the body of his wife in the bedroom; having been stabbed several times. Paramedics arrived and certified her dead on the scene, and the motive for the murder is not yet known. The knife used in the stabbing was recovered,” Mbele said.

  He added that the man was arrested and charged with murder.

  Johannesburg Central station commander Brigadier Irvin Perumal condemned the incident as a ‘heinous crime against women’; and urged women not to keep silent when being abused by their partners. He also urged men to stop treating women as their property, and seek counselling if they fail to solve their problems amicably.