Port Elizabeth: The Provincial Commissioner, Lt Gen Liziwe Ntshinga has applauded the thorough investigations by the Mount Road Cluster Trio Detective Task Team in ensuring yet another success against a ‘habitual’ criminal. ‘Our members have made a significant breakthrough in the murder of Kelly Bain (26). The suspect, who is in custody for another murder, allegedly committed in May 2018, was linked through DNA to the Bain murder. Months of meticulous investigation and the collection of forensic evidence resulted in the linkage between this particular suspect and the murder of Kelly Bain.’
The suspect (27) will be appearing in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 4 February for 8 other housebreaking cases allegedly committed between March and July 2018 in the Kabega Park, Humewood and Mount Road areas. He will also be appearing for the murder of Kelly Bain.
The suspect was first arrested on 21 September 2018 when two suspicious men were taken in for questioning and for profiling by Walmer members after they were found in the Charlo area (Adam Road). The men could not account for their presence as this area is a hotspot area for housebreakings. They were brought to the police station for further profiling. While the detective was busy verifying the fingerprints of one of the suspects, he jumped through the open window and ran away.
On Wednesday, 3 October 2018 at about 14:00, a breakthrough was made and the suspect was arrested in the CBD in Aliwal North. With the assistance of Aliwal North Operation Command Centre, the information received was immediately followed and the arrest was effected.
The suspect has been positively linked to the murder and robbery of an elderly woman, Ann Smit (86) which took place May 2018 in Kamma Park. He has been linked through forensic evidence and has since appeared in court. His next appearance is later this month.
His case of escaping from lawful custody is also pending. The suspect was previously found guilty in about 12 other cases of housebreaking and theft committed since 2007.
The Provincial Commissioner of the Eastern Cape, Lieutenant General Ntshinga commented that ‘we will be working closely with the National Prosecuting Authority to make sure that this suspect deserves his rightful punishment. Our detectives are also busy trying to link him to previous cold cases in the cluster. We have thus far achieved excellent results by linking the suspect to many serious and violent cases allegedly committed in the Nelson Mandela Metro.’
In July 2018 Kelly Bain, 26, was attacked by a crazed knifeman and brutally butchered in her own home while nursing her new born baby daughter.
Bain was on maternity leave with the one-month-old tot when an unknown man slipped into her home and locked her maid in the loo.
Then he stabbed the pretty blonde mother-of-two twice in the neck severing an artery and once in the body leaving her on the floor in a pool of blood.
Moments later her fiance Christopher Bonus, 34, had returned home to pay the maid her wages and heard the maid screaming for help in the bathroom.
He walked straight into his bride-to-be’s attacker and the pair of them scuffled but the attacker broke free and is said to have vaulted a fence and escaped.
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