{"id":974261,"date":"2022-02-03T01:11:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T01:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/eastern-cape-cop-sentenced-to-15-years-for-killing-wife\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T01:11:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T01:11:42","slug":"eastern-cape-cop-sentenced-to-15-years-for-killing-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/eastern-cape-cop-sentenced-to-15-years-for-killing-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Cape cop sentenced to 15 years for killing wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/9e11da57-a261-5b98-b9e1-531fc749acca&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x121&#038;resize=1198x674.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>PRETORIA: The high court in East London sentenced a former police officer to 15 years in prison for killing his wife.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, former Constable Sakhiwo Sifama, 39, was convicted for the murder of his wife, Lumka Dastile-Sifama, on April 26, 2018, said Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) spokesperson Grace Langa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to Langa, on April 26 in 2018, the couple were renting a flat in the suburb of Greenfields in East London, when the wife was murdered. <\/p>\n<p>Langa explained that on the fateful night, gunshots were heard by the landlord coming from the room that the couple were renting. <\/p>\n<p>The following day the landlord called police as she was afraid to open the door on her own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Police found Sifama and his wife lying in a pool of blood. There was a firearm next to Sifama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the police kicked the door open, they found the wife dead with multiple gunshot wounds and Sifama was still alive with a gunshot wound on his forehead and exit (wound) at the top of the head. He was rushed to hospital where he was treated and recovered,\u201d said Langa.<\/p>\n<p>Sifama was stationed at the East London Public Order Policing. He resigned after being summoned to appear for a departmental disciplinary hearing for the same case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA: The high court in East London sentenced a former police officer to 15 years in prison for killing his wife. On Wednesday, former Constable Sakhiwo Sifama, 39, was convicted for the murder of his wife, Lumka Dastile-Sifama, on April 26, 2018, said Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) spokesperson Grace Langa. According to Langa, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}