{"id":149579,"date":"2021-10-23T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T07:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=149579"},"modified":"2021-10-23T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T07:25:14","slug":"south-africa-ex-policewoman-found-guilty-killing-relatives-and-boyfriend-for-insurance-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=149579","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Ex-policewoman found guilty killing relatives and boyfriend for insurance cash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu was defiant throughout most of the trial accusing witnesses of lying<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0PRETORIA, Oct 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — <\/strong>A South African ex-policewoman Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu has been found guilty of killing five relatives and her boyfriend at the end of a trial that has gripped the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The six were murdered between 2012 and 2018, most with the help of a hitman, so she cold profit from life-insurance payouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 46 year old was finally caught after someone she hired to kill her sister went to the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is due to be sentenced next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ndlovu was also found guilty of the attempted murder of her mother, Maria Mushwana, as well as insurance fraud after having pocketed an estimated 1.4m rand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of the three-month trial, the prosecution revealed how she had systematically arranged life and funeral insurance for her relatives and then had them killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first person to be murdered was her cousin, Witness Madala Homu, in March 2012. Then her sister, boyfriend, niece and two nephews were all killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her last victim, Brilliant Mashego, died in January 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In most cases she hired hitmen to carry out the murders, but in 2013 she poisoned and strangled her sister Audrey Somisa Ndlovu herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series of murders ended after she approached someone to kill another sister and the sister’s five children in March 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man she hired informed the police who then arranged a sting operation to record her talking about the plans, the Times Live news site reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ndlovu was heard speaking about how she wanted the six to be burnt alive at home saying that she needed the money, Times Live says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the trial, Ndlovu maintained her innocence, accusing many of the 50 state witnesses of lying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the prosecution produced evidence to show how she had been with most of her victims before their deaths and how she had benefited afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The accused was either the last person to see them alive or the first to notice that they were missing,” state advocate Riana Williams said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“She nominated herself as the beneficiary so as to cash in on life and funeral covers.” — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu was defiant throughout most of the trial accusing witnesses of lying \u00a0PRETORIA, Oct 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A South African ex-policewoman Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu has been found guilty of killing five relatives and her boyfriend at the end of a trial that has gripped the country. The six were murdered between 2012 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":149581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}