A father has been arrested after he allegedly beat a man to death, believing the man had raped his 7-year-old daughter in Port Elizabeth, S. Africa.
Police spokesperson Captain André Beetge said the
36-year-old father was arrested on Tuesday for the murder of the
52-year-old man that was suspected of raping the child.
Beetge
said it was alleged that on Saturday at about 10:50pm, the victim, Mava
Fundakubi, 52, was severely assaulted in De Vos Crescent, Shukushukuma,
after it was suspected by community members that he had raped the little
girl.
While the girl and her mother were at the Motherwell
Health Centre, Fundakubi was taken into the street and fatally assaulted
by a large group of people.
Beetge said investigators
established that the child had not been raped and a search for the
killers of Fundakubi ensued. The father of the girl handed himself over
to police on Tuesday. .
He alleges that he went to Fundakubi’s
house and assaulted him in the street after other people joined him. The
father was arrested and will face a charge of murder. Police are still
searching for his accomplices.
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