{"id":200124,"date":"2025-06-14T13:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-court-upholds-confession-of-alleged-triple-murderer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:56:30","slug":"lesotho-court-upholds-confession-of-alleged-triple-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-court-upholds-confession-of-alleged-triple-murderer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Court Upholds Confession of Alleged Triple Murderer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Lehlohonolo Masoleng, accused of brutally murdering three women between February and April 2024, has suffered a major setback after the High Court ruled last week Friday that his confession of the killings is admissible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Mohale&#8217;s Hoek resident, 30, allegedly lured his victims&#8211;Mat\u0161epo Likotsi of Mapoteng in Berea, Maletsema Foka of Nazareth in Maseru, and Kefuoe Moretlo of Mohale&#8217;s Hoek&#8211;with fake job offers on Facebook while posing as a recruiter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">He was exposed when residents of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120635.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehlohonolo Masoleng, accused of brutally murdering three women between February and April 2024, has suffered a major setback after the High Court ruled last week Friday that his confession of the killings is admissible. The Mohale&#8217;s Hoek resident, 30, allegedly lured his victims&#8211;Mat\u0161epo Likotsi of Mapoteng in Berea, Maletsema Foka of Nazareth in Maseru, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,4305,18462,6185,4717,1407,10392,257,254,15633,8170],"class_list":["post-200124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-confession","tag-court","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-murderer","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-triple","tag-upholds"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}