Murder Charge: Lesotho PM Fails To Appear In Court, Claims Ill-Health
In this file photo taken on August 19, 2017 Prime Minister of Lesotho, Thomas Motsoahae Thabane is seated at the Opening Session of the 37th Southern African Development Community Summit of Heads of State and Government at the OR Tambo Building in Pretoria. GULSHAN KHAN / AFPLesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, who was due to be charged with the murder of his estranged wife, failed to appear in court on Friday on medical grounds, an aide said.
“He is not attending court, he has gone for a medical check-up in South Africa,” his personal secretary Thabo Thakalekoala told AFP, adding it is a “routine” medical check. Thabane left the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho on Thursday, the same day that police announced he was due Friday to appear before a magistrate for murder charges to be formally read out to him.
Earlier on Friday the PM had announced on the state broadcaster that he would quit office by the end of July due to old age. The 80-year-old is accused of having acted “in common purpose” in the June 2017 killing by unknown assailants of Lilopelo Thabane, 58, then his wife.His current wife Maesaiah Thabane, 42, who he married two months after Lipolelo’s death, has also been charged with the same murder of her rival.In his inaugural speech, Thabane described his wife’s murder as a “senseless killing”.
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