{"id":210018,"date":"2025-10-16T07:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-letsoepas-bail-challenged-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:57:56","slug":"lesotho-letsoepas-bail-challenged-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-letsoepas-bail-challenged-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Letsoepa&#8217;s Bail Challenged &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em>&#8230;Khetheng family demands his re-arrest<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>&#8230;argues that since he absconded for seven years, he is unfit for bail<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><strong>T<\/strong>HE family of slain Police Constable (PC) Mokalekale Khetheng has petitioned the Court of Appeal to revoke the High Court&#8217;s decision granting former Police Commissioner, Molahlehi Letsoepa, bail &#8212; arguing that he does not deserve freedom after spending seven years on the run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Letsoepa was in February 2025 charged for his alleged involvement in the 2016 abduction and subsequent murder&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510130447.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>&#8230;Khetheng family demands his re-arrest &#8230;argues that since he absconded for seven years, he is unfit for bail THE family of slain Police Constable (PC) Mokalekale Khetheng has petitioned the Court of Appeal to revoke the High Court&#8217;s decision granting former Police Commissioner, Molahlehi Letsoepa, bail &#8212; arguing that he does not deserve freedom after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210019,"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":[258,256,42655,7900,10306,4717,1407,52589,257,254],"class_list":["post-210018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-bail","tag-challenged","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-letsoepas","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/210018","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=210018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}