The men told neighbours that they would leave her at Ekuvukeni police station. But this never happened. Her body was later found near a gravel farm at Ntsepe game farm in the Wasbank area.

On December 16, two men arrived at the Wasbank police station in an Albany bread truck to report that they had just been robbed by armed men while travelling on the Wasbank-Tholeni road.

"Upon arrival at the first identified location within the Wasbank policing precinct, police arrested a suspect found in possession of unlicensed firearms, namely a 9mm pistol and an M4 rifle ...