{"id":128683,"date":"2016-07-24T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128683\/two-nabbed-for-pensioners-murder\/"},"modified":"2016-07-24T19:43:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T17:43:18","slug":"two-nabbed-for-pensioners-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/24\/two-nabbed-for-pensioners-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Two nabbed for pensioner\u2019s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men, aged 26 and 27 respectively, were recently arrested by the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The men were charged with the murder of a Wychwood pensioner.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe murder was reported to the Primrose police on June 16 by the deceased\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told officers that she came home at 3.30pm and found her 66-year-old husband dead on their bed,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, the communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Police on the scene confirmed that the victim had been strangled with stockings.<\/p>\n<p>Officers traced the accused to Soweto where they were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the suspects gave the police a full confession,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The men have since appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court, where the case was postponed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128666\/r100k-reward-for-information\/\" target=\"_blank\">R100k reward for information on murder suspects<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/127971\/operation-targets-illegal-immigrants-and-illegal-taverns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Operation targets illegal immigrants and illegal taverns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128340\/update-man-found-hanging-at-lake-leaves-suicide-note\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Man found hanging at lake leaves suicide note<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='209938e990dd8b13c4691e30ef6af31f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently arrested two men for allegedly murdering a Wychwood pensioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":128684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-128683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}