Newlands teen kidnapping: DNA testing after burnt body discovered

Newlands teen kidnapping: DNA testing after burnt body discovered

Durban's Stalwart Simelane Street, formerly Stanger Street, has been reopened to traffic.

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This comes after more than 80 people had completely blocked the route on Friday morning with burning tyres outside Unisa. 

Metro police are monitoring the situation. 

KZN police say the protest is over the kidnapping of Newlands West schoolboy Mmeli Ngcobo - who was taken from outside his school in February by three suspects and bundled into a car. 

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Earlier this week, a group of residents from Newlands West held a demonstration and demanded to know what was happening in the case. 

One of the suspects - charged with kidnapping - is out on bail and will be back in court on 26 April.  

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The police's Thembeka Mbele has appealed for patience, saying they're still waiting for DNA results. 


"We are waiting for the DNA results from the forensic laboratory and the family have been informed and updated now and again. There is a body that was found in the Umsunduzi area which was burned." 


"As police our procedure is that if a person cannot be identified - this body was burnt beyond recognition - we have to take the samples of one of the family relatives, because they claimed the body belonged to their child. So we have to wait for the DNA results."

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