The Bethelsdorp SAPS members arrested a 51 year old suspect on charges of murder on Sunday 24 March 2019, in the evening, after he allegedly stabbed and assaulted his girlfriend. The 45 year old victim from Palmar Street in Booysen Park passed away on the scene due to her injuries.
It is alleged that the woman and her boyfriend was walking in Palmar Street, Phola Park on Saturday 23 March 2019, at approximately 20:20. According to witnesses her boyfriend pulled out a knife and stabbed her and assaulted her with a glass bottle, she sustained a stab wound in the neck and on the upper body.
The suspect fled on foot and was hiding from the police, but on Sunday just after 01:35, he was arrested by members from Bethelsdorp in Polar Park after police received information.
The suspect will appear in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate Court on Tuesday 26 March 2019, on charges of murder.
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