FOR days, the 17-year-old drug addict threatened his mum and said he would kill her.
And on Sunday morning, he allegedly stabbed and beat his mum to death.
He then quickly changed his bloodied clothes and came up with a story that thugs had broken into the family house and killed his mother.
But his five-year-old brother saw everything and called the neighbours, who contacted the police.
The 38-year-old woman was found dead in her kitchen in Ga-Rankuwa, Tshwane.
The woman’s 47-year-old aunt said when they got to the house they found her dead and her son weeping uncontrollably.
“He lied to us, saying thugs had broken into the house and killed his mum, but we knew he was responsible for her death,” said the aunt.
She said cops later found the son’s bloodied clothes in the house and bust him for murder.
The dead woman’s husband got a call at work to come home. “When I got home I was told my stepson was responsible,” he said.
“We were always being called to intervene when he had stolen from people.
“He was expelled from school for stealing his classmate’s cellphone.”
Ga-Rankuwa police spokesman Captain Matthews Nkoadi said a case of murder was opened.
“The suspect will appear in the Ga-Rankuwa Magistrates Court soon.
