Murder scene DUMPED IN A BIN: Cops at the gruesome crime scene in Manenberg
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BY MAHIRA DUVAL
THREE members of the Hard Livings gang accused of being behind the vicious murder of a woman who was strangled and dumped in a wheelie bin have abandoned their bail applications.
In a shocking twist it has been revealed that the third suspect was bust on boeber night after going on the run for several weeks.
The horrific discovery was made on 6 March as commuters walking along Duinefontein got a moerse skrik when they saw the legs of the woman inside the bin as the rubbish was removed.
The bin was dumped in a canal near Duinefontein Road and cops were called to the scene as a large crowd gathered trying to identify the deceased woman.
As police photographers arrived on the scene the body was removed and this is when cops discovered it was a woman. She was later identified as a 29-year-old drug addict from Gugulethu.
On the same day, Sergeant Daryl Van Noie retraced her movements and discovered that she was last seen alive at a property in Hurricane Street. Cops descended on the house which is reportedly run as a pella pos for the Hard Livings gang and busted the huisbaas Denver Paulse.
The determined detective also recovered the rope used to strangle the woman and it was later discovered that the Hard Livings gang suspected her of being a spy for the Fancy Boys gang and even set her on fire before dumping the bin in the canal.
Four days after the murder, Paulse appeared alongside Shaheem van Schalkwyk at the Athlone Magistrate’s Court on murder charges where they were informed that the state would be opposing their release on bail.
The duo returned to court this week where they were joined by Zubair Moses, 30, who was arrested last week.
According to a Daily Voice source, Moses was enjoying boeber with his family when he was caught. The source says: "He went on the run and was missing for more than a week. But he came home to boeka with his family on boeber night and was arrested in his parents house."
During court proceedings the trio opted to abandon their bail applications and the case was postponed to 23 May for further investigations.