GRUESOME MURDER: Cape Town son recounts trauma of identifying his dismembered mother

The horror of 19 March 2026 still haunts a Cape Town father, the night police asked him to lift a blanket and identify what remained of his 79-year-old mother, known to neighbours simply as ‘Auntie Connie’. Beneath the sheet lay her mutilated body. He saw only her naked chest. Her head was missing, her arms severed, and both hands were gone.

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