A GQEBERHA woman is expected to appear in the Motherwell Magistrates Court on Monday, 20 June, for the murder of her boyfriend.
The 29-year-old woman was arrested and detained on a charge of murder after the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend during the early hours of 19 June.
According to police, it is alleged that at about 3am, the couple returned home from a party.
Police spokeswoman Colonel Priscilla Naidu said: “An argument broke out between them and the suspect ordered her boyfriend to leave. It is further alleged that the boyfriend, aged 34, started to assault her and during the physical altercation, he was stabbed in his chest and back. He succumbed to his wounds at the clinic. The incident took place in Elephant Park.”
The woman was arrested at the scene.
Naidu said the next of kin of the deceased has not yet been informed.
