Lesotho’s first lady, Maesiah Thabane has been charged with murder in connection with the 2017 killing of prime minister Thomas Thabane’s former wife, Lipolelo Thabane.
Maesiah Thabane returned on Tuesday afternoon and turned herself in for questioning over the brutal killing. Police said she had been hiding in South Africa.
The 42-year-old was remanded in custody and charged with murder alongside eight others who are in Lesotho and South Africa, police confirmed.
Deputy police commissioner Paseka Mokete said that there was a ‘strong case’ against the first lady and that investigations had been ‘satisfactorily completed’.