Johannesburg – A man suspected of murdering his wife and two daughters in Britain before fleeing to Johannesburg will be extradited to face trial in the UK, South Africa’s justice minister said on Sunday.
Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma, a 45-year-old British citizen of Zimbabwean heritage, was arrested in Johannesburg on Friday in an intelligence-led operation involving Interpol.
This is the moment a Zimbabwean man, who is also a British citizen and is wanted in the United Kingdom for allegedly murdering his wife and two children, was arrested by South African police in the Johannesburg suburb of Kensington.
He was arrested by the South African Police… pic.twitter.com/ViCACISUAe
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British prosecutors authorised police to charge him with three counts of murder after the bodies of his wife, Zandile Tshuma, 42, and their daughters, Natalie, 15, and Nala, five, were found at their home in Bedfordshire, north of London, on Tuesday.
Tshuma “will be extradited to the UK once I have signed all the extradition documents and requests”, South African Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi told reporters.
[WATCH] Justice Minister and Inter Ministerial Committee on Migration chairperson, Mmamoloko Kubayi says at the time British – Zimbabwean fugitive Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma entered South Africa on July 5, he was not flagged as a fugitive.#Newzroom405 pic.twitter.com/BWvfb4vezH
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“The teams are working quite hard around the clock so that the extradition requests are done and the paperwork is done in time,” she said, without giving a timeline.
Tshuma is due to appear in a Johannesburg court on Monday.
A man suspected of murdering his family was pictured fleeing to Zimbabwe two days before his wife and daughters were found dead.
42-year-old Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma was pictured at Heathrow airport on Saturday.@LisaSkyNews reports pic.twitter.com/NohiTzpS1O
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Source: AFP
