{"id":16676,"date":"2026-01-11T07:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16676\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T07:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:55:11","slug":"blood-stains-found-at-home-after-woman-discovered-stabbed-in-brackenhurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16676\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood stains found at home after woman discovered stabbed in Brackenhurst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A husband has been arrested for the murder of his wife after her body was discovered in the boot of her car at Bracken Square Shopping Centre in Brackenhurst.<\/p>\n<p>Alberton SAPS confirmed that on Friday, a white female reported her friend missing at the Alberton police station. The missing person\u2019s details were officially registered.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, at around 18:00, Brackendowns SAPS recovered a vehicle at the shopping centre with the woman\u2019s body inside the boot. The car was registered to the missing person.<\/p>\n<p>Following the discovery, Alberton SAPS and CPS Security visited the victim\u2019s residence, where a friend of the husband was found parked at the gate.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators discovered blood stains inside the house and identified additional witnesses who were interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>The husband was traced throughout the night and, when he arrived at the property the following morning, he was immediately arrested for murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/alberton-record\/news-headlines\/local-crime-news\/2026\/01\/10\/suspect-arrested-after-womans-body-found-in-brackenhurst-car-boot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Suspect arrested after woman\u2019s body found in a car boot in Brackenhurst<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the victim had suffered multiple stab wounds, and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is expected to appear at the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court on Monday on charges of murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/alberton-record\/news-headlines\/local-crime-news\/2026\/01\/10\/watch-womans-body-found-in-car-boot-at-brackenhurst-shopping-centre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH: Woman\u2019s body found in car boot at Brackenhurst shopping centre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A husband has been arrested for the murder of his wife after her body was discovered in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[9950,9951,302,1363,3263,96,3753,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-16676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-alberton","9":"tag-alberton-news-headlines","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-news-headlines","15":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}