/ 4 June 2001

SWAZI ACCUSED KILLER POINTS OUT FOUR BODIES

A MAN charged with Swaziland’s worst serial killing spree has led police to four more bodies, a police representative said on Thursday. Assistant Superintendent Leckina Magagula said David Thabo Simelane – charged with 34 counts of murder of women and children – took police to Marula Ranch Farm outside the town of Manzini, about 40km southeast of Mbabane on Wednesday. Police found four decomposed bodies, shoes and underwear at the scene, Magagula said. Simelane appeared in the central Swaziland Manzini magistrate’s court late last month. At that appearance the court was told the murders took place between October 1999 and April 2001. Four babies were among the dead. Some of the women’s bodies were found lying face down with their hands tied behind their backs, and about half the bodies had been decapitated, police said. – AFP