A fifth suspect in the Manenberg "Sin Bin" murder was busted at Athlone Magistrates Court yesterday.
After weeks on the run, the 19-year-old got a moerse skrik when cops pounced on him as he appeared on a separate criminal case.
He is the fifth suspect and alleged member of the Hard Livings gang accused of being behind the horrific death of a woman who was strangled, set alight and dumped in a wheelie bin.
The horrific discovery was made on 6 March as commuters walking along the Duinefontein Road canal where shocked when they saw the legs of the woman inside the bin as the rubbish was being removed.
As police photographers arrived on the scene, the body was removed and this is when cops discovered it was a woman. She was later identified as a 29-year-old drug addict from Gugulethu.
On the same day, Sergeant Daryl van Noie retraced her movements and discovered that she was last seen alive at a property in Hurricane Street.
Cops descended on the house which is reportedly run as a pella pos for the Hard Livings gang and busted the huisbaas Denver Paulse. Paulse appeared alongside Shaheem van Schalkwyk at the Athlone Magistrates Court on murder charges where they were informed that the state would be oppose their bail bids.
The duo returned to court and were later joined by Zubair Moses, 30, who was arrested after returning to Manenberg on boeberaand after going on the run. A week later cops also busted Nizaam Caesar at his family’s home in Oribi Court, Hanover Park.