Crime & Courts

Pascalinah Kabi TEMPERS flared when lawyers representing suspended Chief Justice Nthomeng Majara and those representing the government met behind closed doors on Monday in the…
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’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Directorate of Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) is investigating possible corruption and the flouting of tender procedures in the multi-million maloti…
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Staff Writer FORMER minister of Law, Mootsi Lehata was this week remanded to 9 October 2018 when he appeared at the Maseru Magistrates’ Court to answer charges of raping a minor.…
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Mohalenyane Phakela THE much-anticipated criminal trials of past and serving members of the security agencies could be further delayed amid revelations that the government is only in…
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Nthatuoa Koeshe Leribe A LERIBE woman (35) from Tsikoane Leralleng has been nabbed along with two other accomplices for allegedly murdering her husband to access life insurance…
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Tefo Tefo/ Keiso Mohloboli THE lawyers representing the murder-accused former army commander, Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli and other soldiers on Tuesday threatened to file a…
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Pascalinah Kabi A PROMINENT lawyer, Advocate Qhalehang Letsika, one of the provisional liquidators of the embattled MKM Star Lion Group estate has accused the company’s director,…
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Tokelo Rasephei Mohale’s Hoek A WOMAN from Ha Mapooane will soon appear in court to face charges of culpable homicide after she allegedly knocked down and killed a five-year-old…
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Tefo Tefo FORMER Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) commander, Retired Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli, will next week finally stand trial in the High Court over a plethora of murder and…
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Man kills wife’s boyfriend Leribe THE police recently arrested a 28-year-old man from Matukeng, in Leribe District for the murder of his wife’s boyfriend. Reports indicate that…
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’Marafaele Mohloboli JUSTICE has remained elusive for ’Matšepang Kaizer six years after her husband, Motlalepula Kaizer, was gunned down at the house of former All Basotho Convention…
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Pascalinah Kabi “They have shot you badly…pray hard and ask God to spare your life.” These are the last words Thato Matamane uttered into her husband’s ear, a few seconds before…
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Tefo Tefo THE High Court will next Tuesday hear a bail application by murder-accused former army commander, Lieutenant-General Tlali Kamoli, who has been languishing in custody at…
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Pascalinah Kabi FOUR Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) members have been charged with murdering three men in April 2012 around Ha Motanyane and Matholeng by the Mafeteng Magistrate’s…
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Tefo Tefo A SYNDICATE of alleged fraudsters have begun a court battle to be released on bail after first appearing before the Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Napo Moliko (29) from…
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Tefo Tefo TWO army officers who are facing two charges of murder relating to killings that occurred near former army commander, Lieutenant Tlali Kamoli’s residence three…
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Tefo Tefo KOALABATA double ritual murder suspect, Lehlohonolo Scott, this week narrated before the High Court how the police assaulted him until he soiled himself while in detention…
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Nthatuoa Koeshe Maseru A 22 year old Maqhaka man will make his second appearance before the Berea Magistrate’s Court on October 30, 2017 on charges of murdering Hopolang Mokebisa…
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Tefo Tefo THE hopes of scores of onlookers and journalists to catch a glimpse of former Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) commander, Lieutenant-General Tlali Kamoli, during his…
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Pascalinah Kabi THE owner of Insured Salvation Orphanage in Maseru, Pastor Mavis Mochochoko (73) was strangled to death at her home in Mohalalitoe. Her body was discovered on the…
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Tefo Tefo FORMER Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Social Development, Selloane Qhobela on Monday appeared before the Maseru Magistrate’s Court charged with fraud…
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Robbers hit OK Mafeteng SOME robbers broke into OK furniture shop on Saturday last week and got away with five flat screen televisions and a radio, all worth M60,000. Police…
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Maseru DARING armed robbers ambushed the owner of First Choice supermarket in broad daylight in Maseru and got away with M200 000 he wanted to use to buy some supplies for his shop.…
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Nthatuoa Koeshe Maseru A suspected serial killer and traditional healer slit his stomach open when he realised that police had come to arrest him at his home in Ha Makhabane…
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. . . as murder accused soldiers point to same spot ’Marafaele Mohloboli THE Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) and divers from the South African police will – if the weather…
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Tefo Tefo EIGHT soldiers facing charges of murdering three men were on Tuesday remanded in custody to 18 October, 2017 by the Magistrate’s Court in Maseru. The soldiers are…
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’Marafaele Mohloboli AN investigator in the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) is recovering in hospital after being abducted and shot by two unknown assailants…
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Limpho Sello CIVIL society organizations last Sunday joined the Ribaneng community in Mafeteng district to pray for an end to famo-related killings that have so far claimed…
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Nthatuoa Koeshe A 43-year-old man who was working as a Superintendent at Mokhotlong Police station appeared before a Mokhotlong Magistrates’ Court on 13 September facing charges of…
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Tefo Tefo SUSPENDED police officer, Senior Superintendent (SSP) Thabo Tšukulu, has denied accusations that he was part of the conspiracy to kill Police Constable (PC)…
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