Simphiwe Mxosa (48), a former prison warder in East London’s West Bank prison, will spend the rest of his life in prison after he hacked his ex-wife with a bush knife because she was leaving him. This comes after he was sentenced by the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa in East London.
The Department of Social Development is to provide assistance to the couple’s children, as well as to their grandmother, who is the victim’s mother, per a court order.
Mxosa and his ex-wife were legally divorced but maintained a relationship; nevertheless, she had broken up with him again because she was tired of being abused physically by Mxosa, and he had refused to accept her decision.
According to a report from Luxolo Tyali, the NPA’s Eastern Cape spokesperson, the man attacked his ex-wife in the West Bank prison complex where they lived while their nine-year-old daughter looked on.
This happened on March 1, 2022.
The woman was going to fetch her clothes from this place with her child. Mxosa feigned to assist her as she searched beneath the bed for her shoes, but in reality, he attacked her with a bush knife.
Their daughter fled and yelled for assistance. While drinking alcohol with his friends in town that day, Mxosa was arrested.
Mxosa entered a not guilty plea during the trial and said that the child had received instruction from the maternal grandmother to accuse him.
Mxosa had worked as a warder in this prison for 14 years.
According to Barry Madolo, director of public prosecutions in the Eastern Cape, this serves as evidence that even law enforcement officials are subject to the full weight of the law.
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