Cops nab woman who hired hit man to kill aunt; sister sought

KWAZULU-NATAL police have arrested a woman who hired a hit man for R20000 to kill her aunt.

Police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda said an intelligence-driven operation – involving officers from Provincial Crime Intelligence, ethekwini Central Crime Intelligence, the Provincial Organised Crime unit and Electronic Surveillance – was successfully executed on Friday when a 43-year-old woman was arrested for hiring someone to kill her aunt.

Netshiunda said intelligence was gathered on March 31, 2023, about a woman who was looking for the services of a hit man to have her aunt killed for an unknown motive.

“The undercover operation was put in motion and the woman, who had agreed to pay R20000 for her aunt’s life, had already deposited half of the amount into an undercover police officers account when she was nabbed at her estate home in Pretoria. She had agreed that the balance would be paid after the job was done,” he said.

“During the investigation, the aunt residing in Verulam was put under witness protection for maximum security.

“Police are also closing in on the suspect’s sister, whose role in the conspiracy was to provide the supposed hit man with the photograph of the hit target.”

Meanwhile, in an unrelated incident, on March 16, 2023, police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker said officers were on routine patrol duties when a community member alerted them to vehicles with suspicious-looking occupants who were making their rounds in the area.

“The tactically-ready police officers called for backup and the suspects were cornered on Montille Road. Four suspects travelling in two vehicles were arrested and two AK-47 assault rifles were found in one of the vehicles. One vehicle attempted to speed off but was outsmarted by police who managed to stop it a few kilometres from the original scene, where the fifth suspect was arrested. Police are hot on the heels of the sixth suspect,” Naicker said.

He said that preliminary investigations have revealed that one of the vehicles was reported hijacked by four knife-wielding suspects in Inanda in March 2023.

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