The body of a man allegedly strangled with a shoelace by his son was found stuffed under a bed in his house.
|||Cape Town - The body of a Cape Town man allegedly strangled with a shoelace by his own son has been found stuffed under a bed in his house.
The 55-year-old man’s decomposed body was found on Sunday afternoon, four days after his wife reported him missing from their Elsies River home.
The victim’s concerned neighbours became suspicious when they got a terrible smell coming from his house.
Cops believe the man was strangled by his own son who is a known drug addict.
The 26-year-old suspect handed himself over hours after the gruesome discovery.
The suspect, whose identity is known to the Daily Voice, is due in court soon on a murder charge.
Neighbours say they grew suspicious when the man’s wife and daughter told them he vanished.
Mark Peake, 39, says he went to the police station when he suspected foul play: “The last time I saw him, he told my wife he would come around the next day but he didn’t and I thought that was very strange.
“I had an uneasy feeling because he would not just walk away. I suspected he must be dead so I had to go to the police station.”
Police arrived at the house around 3pm after residents threatened to torch the house.
“When the police came, they searched the house and found him under that bed. I didn’t want to go inside because of the smell,” Peake added.
“I watched through one of the windows and when they lifted the bed, I could see him lying on his back with one of his hands under him and the other hand beside him,” Peake said.
Neighbour Jolene Christians, 29, said residents noticed a foul smell coming from the house.
“When you stand close by, we could smell something coming from the house but they always said it was a dead rat,” she said.
Several residents say the victim’s wife even tried to take the blame for the murder.
“After police found the body, the wife shouted that she killed her husband for everyone to hear,” a resident said.
“But we didn’t believe her and neither did the police because we know she was protecting her son.”
Police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Andrè Traut confirmed that a 26-year-old was arrested in connection with his father’s murder.
Daily Voice