Flavio Hlabangwane found guilty of murdering girlfriend Tshepang Pitse
Image: Kgaugelo Masweneng
Flavio Hlabangwane was on Tuesday found guilty of premeditated murder, defeating the ends of justice and violating a corpse by the Johannesburg high court.
Hlabangwane confessed to killing his girlfriend and cousin Tshepang Pitse, saying he plotted to do so after discovering she had been unfaithful to him.
He told the court, sitting in the Palm Ridge magistrate's court, that the murder, dismembering and discarding of her body parts took place between November 1 and 13 2021.
Judge Cassim Ismail Moosa said it was clear from his admissions that Hlabangwane admitted to murder, defeating or obstructing the ends of justice and violating a corpse.
The court gave Hlabangwane, who was emotional and crying when the judgement was handed down, an opportunity to call witnesses to testify and bring his own evidence in mitigation of his sentence.
Moosa said this will allow the court to have the full picture before it imposes a sentencing.
The matter was postponed to February 10 where pre-sentencing reports are expected to be ready.
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