OVM3701 Assignment 1 Semester 1 | Due April 2025

OVM3701 Assignment 1 Semester 1 | Due April 2025. All questions answered. Case study Khomotso Tladi was charged for complicity in the murder of her husband, Andrew Tladi, a senior Limpopo health department official. He was shot several times and his body dumped hundreds of kilometres away from his home. His total estate amounted to nearly R4 million (News 24, 2005). Mpumalanga police spokesperson, Captain Malcolm Mokomene, confirmed that four other people were arrested in connection with Tladi’s death. Two of them, Gilbert Makhobela, 43, and Samson Mogalaka, 32, are the alleged killers, while the other two, Eva Sithole, 43, and Gustav Snyman, 19, are part of the team called the “brains behind the plan to kill Tladi” on 3 December 2004. According to the statement, Tladi’s wife simply wanted the killers to “scare” her husband in order to convince him that Polokwane is a dangerous place. This was after he allegedly asked her to relocate with him to Polokwane, where he has been working for four months as a senior manager in Limpopo’s Health and Social Development Department (News 24,2005). The widow of the slain Limpopo pharmacist has denied ordering three hitmen to kill her husband. She says she only wanted them to scare him. Tladi was shot and wounded and then driven in the boot of his Mercedes-Benz to Marble Hall, where he was “finished off”, allegedly by Mogalaka. Tladi’s widow told the court through her counsel, Johan van Wyk, that she would state in her evidence that she did not ask the men to kill her husband “but to scare him” so that he would return to their Pretoria home (News 24, 2005). Van Wyk said his client refused to pay the hitmen R150 000 each for their part in the murder but offered them R3 000 plus R500. This was refuted by Snyman, who said that the payment had been discussed at one of several meetings at Mogakala’s house. He said the widow told them “she wants us to kill her husband”. Van Wyk, who is also representing Sithole, a family friend, said his client would say in her evidence that she received a telephone call from Mogalaka to say that Tladi was wounded. She told Mogalaka to leave Tladi and not to harm him any further. Asked if he knew of such a telephone conversation, Snyman said he did not (Sowetan LIVE, 2006). He told the court how he fled from Tladi’s house on the night of the murder because he was scared of what was going to happen. Snyman said he made a call to Makhobela, who was waiting in a getaway car some distance from Tladi’s house. He said Mogalaka, who had entered the victim’s house, came back later asking them for their help (Sowetan LIVE, 2006). Question 1 1.1 Discuss the modus operandi used in the above case study. Identify the trademarks that form part of the criminals’ modus operandi in the planning phase, while committing the crime, and after committing the crime using the above case study. In the above case study, the accused planned to have her husband killed by hitmen with the motive to receive an insurance pay-out. However, she later stated that she only wanted the hitmen to scare him. As an investigator, you must be able to extract the truth from the suspects. Interviewers and interrogators can use a variety of interviewing and interrogation techniques, or a combination of techniques. Factors such as the specific circumstances and the personality of the interviewer/interrogator as well as the suspect would determine which techniques to apply in particular circumstances. 1.2 Discuss how you would use the cognitive interviewing technique to establish facts from the suspects in the above case study. (15) TOTAL: [50]