A DOMESTIC violence incident between a couple ended with the death of a man in Namahadi, Frankfort in the Free State, on Sunday, 3 April.
Cops received a call about a fight between a wife and a husband at a house in Phahameng section.
“A member who attended the scene said on arrival, he found a woman sitting on the chair holding her husband, who was on the ground outside the house.
“He noticed that the husband was bleeding from the mouth and he sustained an open wound on the chest. The husband, aged 46, was certified dead on the scene by paramedics,” Captain Malebo Khosana said.
Khosana said on interviewing the wife about what happened, she explained that she was having a fight with her husband outside the house.
According to her, a group of people entered the yard to rescue her from her husband. After the people separated them, she said she saw her husband falling down.
“She further alleged that this unknown group of people ran away. She could not give a clear account on how the victim sustained the fatal injury,” said Khosana.
The wife was later arrested on the same day and will be charged for murder.
She will appear in the Frankfort Magistrates Court on Tuesday, 5 April.
