Ex-police family serial killer: the trial that captivates South Africa
A former police officer accused of having orchestrated the murder of five members of her family and her lover to receive life insurance: the trial of Nomia Ndlovu, chilling television soap opera, has fascinated South Africans for two weeks. The behavior of this 46-year-old woman, wearing asymmetrical buns, who frowns defiantly or takes incongruous poses, raising two fingers to form a frivolous V of victory at the opening of the hearings, adds to the unease. And his composure in the face of terrible accusations is breathtaking. When it resumes on Monday, the ex-policewoman in a bright green dress and shawl around her shoulders, grimaces, wrinkles her nose at questions. His flexible posture, a little too relaxed, seems to taunt the court.
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One after another, cousin, sister, boyfriend, niece, nephew and another relative were found dead between 2012 and 2017, clubbed, strangled or shot. The defendant is said to have taken out life and funeral insurance on behalf of her victims, then claimed the money after their death. She denies everything. “I am not the person who took out my murdered sister's insurance policies,” she said in Tsonga, before translation. According to the prosecution, she would have earned some 80,000 euros thanks to her murderous business. Contract killers are believed to have done most of the dirty work, but Nomia Ndlovu reportedly personally took care of her sister Audrey, poisoning her tea before strangling her.
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She was still planning in 2018 to set fire to the house of another of her sisters, a mother of five children, including a baby, when the planned killer cracked … and warned the police. She thus explained to the man, accompanied by his so-called accomplice, in fact a policeman, that it was first necessary to knock them out with sleeping pills then to fill their mouths with socks to stifle the cries. A few days earlier, another hitman had wavered at the sight of the accused's elderly mother. He gave up his job, asked the frail lady for a glass of water and left the house.
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