Four people linked to a bizarre case of cannibalism in central KwaZulu-Natal made a brief appearance in the Estcourt Magistrate’s Court on Monday facing charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
The arrests followed the confession of a man who walked into the Estcourt police station at the weekend‚ declaring to officers that he was "tired of eating human flesh".
When officers questioned his outlandish statement‚ the man produced part of a human leg and human hand as proof.
The man led detectives to a house in Rensburgdrift where they were confronted with an odour of death and more human remains.
Three other people‚ one of whom is a traditional healer‚ were later detained.
National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Natasha Ramkisson-Kara said that the four were remanded in custody.
“The four will appear again next week when they are expected to apply for bail‚” she said.
The consumption of human flesh itself is not illegal.
In 2001‚ a man from the Nkonka Reserve on the KZN south coast was arrested for murdering a man with a homemade gun.
He was found eating parts of the man’s body when police swooped on his home.
- TimesLIVE
Source: TMG Digital.
KZN man tells police he's 'tired of eating human flesh'
The arrests followed the confession of a man who walked into the Estcourt police station at the weekend‚ declaring to officers that he was "tired of eating human flesh".
When officers questioned his outlandish statement‚ the man produced part of a human leg and human hand as proof.
The man led detectives to a house in Rensburgdrift where they were confronted with an odour of death and more human remains.
Three other people‚ one of whom is a traditional healer‚ were later detained.
National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Natasha Ramkisson-Kara said that the four were remanded in custody.
“The four will appear again next week when they are expected to apply for bail‚” she said.
The consumption of human flesh itself is not illegal.
In 2001‚ a man from the Nkonka Reserve on the KZN south coast was arrested for murdering a man with a homemade gun.
He was found eating parts of the man’s body when police swooped on his home.
- TimesLIVE
Source: TMG Digital.
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