A KwaZulu-Natal man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for murdering his ex-partner in cold blood at the Estcourt taxi rank. The Estcourt Regional Court sentenced a 36-year-old man to life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to the murder of his 33-year-old ex-girlfriend in May 2025 at the Estcourt taxi rank. The two were in a relationship and shared three minor children, but the deceased left the man because he was abusive towards her.
Prior to the deceased’s murder, she had gone to Pietermaritzburg. When she was in Pietermaritzburg, the man could not contact her. When the victim returned to Estcourt, the man called her and told her to wait for him at the taxi rank.
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) regional spokesperson Natasha Ramkisson-Kara said that when the man arrived at the rank, the two got into an argument about where she went. “The accused was armed with his licensed firearm, which he used to shoot the deceased all over her body. He emptied the entire magazine on her, killing her on the scene,” Ramkisson-Kara said.
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The man’s actions were so horrifying that community members at the taxi rank started chasing him. To escape the community, he ran to a nearby police station and surrendered himself to the police. In court, the man pleaded guilty to murdering his former girlfriend.
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