Body of missing Tazne van Wyk found outside Worcester

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A person of interest in her disappearance, Moyhdian Pangarker, has been arrested.

The body of eight-year-old missing Elsies River girl Tazne van Wyk has been found in a stormwater pipe outside Worcester on Wednesday night.Tazne was last seen walking to a tuckshop near her home in Connaught Estate, Elsies River, almost two weeks ago.

A person of interest in her disappearance, Moyhdian Pangarker, 54, was arrested in the Eastern Cape on Monday after being on the run for 10 days. “… [Moyhdian] Pangarker made a court appearance yesterday [Tuesday] in Cradock on a charge of kidnapping following his arrest the previous day,” said Western Cape police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk.Pangarker was arrested in a police trap when he went to visit a woman at a hotel in Cradock on Monday night.

Correctional Services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo told the Cape Times Pangarker had been sentenced to 10 years in jail for culpable homicide in 2008 and was released on parole in October 2016. He was declared an absconder as he could not be found at his home and subsequently never appeared in a Worcester court in February this year in connection with violating his parole conditions, the publication reported.

 

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RonaldLamola this one must get the harshest of sentencing.

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