By Kaya 959 Reporter
A murder case against a 47-year-old North West father who allegedly killed his daughter is expected to head to the High Court in January.
Mokete Legodi is accused of kidnapping and murdering his two-year-old child. Her lifeless body was discovered inside the ceiling of his residential home in Alabama, near Klerksdorp.
NPA spokesperson Henry Mamothame says the state has completed drafting a comprehensive indictment for the matter to be transferred to the North West High Court.
“We are waiting for the indictment to be signed off by the Acting Director of Public Prosecutions in the North West,” he adds.
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Neighbours make gruesome discovery
In May this year, Legodi allegedly went to his girlfriend’s home in Jouberton. He took their daughter without the consent of the mother who was in the hospital at the time.
Mathomame says the toddler’s relatives who were looking after her, assumed he would bring back the child as he usually did.
When the child was not taken back home, Legodi denied that he had taken her.
“On 14 May, when the mother was discharged from hospital, she went on a search for the baby with the help of family members but they could not find her. The following day, she went to Jouberton police station where a case of a missing person was opened,” the NPA says.
Further investigations by the police led to the arrest of Legodi on 16 May.
Mamothame says Legodi was charged with kidnapping after failing to tell the police where the child was.
“A day later, neighbours reported a bad smell coming from Legodi’s house, and the child’s body was found in the ceiling. The police were called and a murder charge was added,” Mamothame says.
His bail application was denied and he remains in police custody until the completion of the trial.
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