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NOT FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS: Assault resulting in alleged murder filmed by four Mhluzi youths accused of the crime
Four Mhluzi youths appeared in the Middelburg Magistrates Court on Wednesday for allegedly murdering an upcoming 24-year-old township businessman, by beating him to death.
The body of the man was found on Sunday, February 23.
The youths filmed the vicious assault after seeing the victim in the street, from a tavern where they were smoking a hookah pipe.
The relentless assault came on the back of a fight the previous year, between the victim and one of the accused, the deceased’s family said.
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