Thabo Ntokozo Nzimande, who killed his grandmother and decapitated her in June 2024, has been convicted by the Durban High Court.
Thabo Ntokozo Nzimande, who stabbed his 80-year-old grandmother, decapitated her, and kicked her severed head like a soccer ball on June 7, 2024, was convicted of murder by the Durban High Court on Thursday.
Acting Judge Mpumelelo Sibisi found that there was no evidence suggesting anyone else could have killed the elderly woman, Beatrice DeLange, in the granny flat they shared with Nzimande in Pinetown.
“The version of the accused denying knowledge of how the deceased was killed is a lie,” Judge Sibisi said.
The judge also rejected Nzimande’s defence that he was temporarily insane at the time of the murder: “He has selective amnesia as far as crucial questions are concerned.”
