'It's been unbearable': Family waits 2 years to bury son while police sit on DNA results | The Citizen

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Hammarsdale police never provided the family with a case number, nor update on the investigation.

He traveled home to Hammarsdale just before the Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, when the pandemic started spreading in the country. After arrival, he changed his clothes and left to visit his friends in the neighbourhood on the same day.“When he didn’t return home that Saturday night, we thought he was with friends. We reported him missing on Monday.

Nontobeko and her mother started making the weekly trip to the police after the six month deadline for DNA results they were given by police lapsed in September 2020. The last time they went to the police station and were told the results were not yet available was last week. “He just lied to my face. What the police did in Sibonginkosi’s case added more to the hurt and trauma of having to wait and not being able to bury your brother, because the police just didn’t care.

Police are yet to allocate a case number, or provide any updates on the investigation into Sibonginkosi’s death. The family was simply told to collect Sibonginkosi’s body on Monday.KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker blamed the saga on poor communication.

 

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