By AFP More by this AuthorLesotho's former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and his wife paid assassins a down payment of $24,000 to kill his estranged wife Lipolelo three years ago, according to a police affidavit seen on Wednesday. Thabane and his then wife Lipolelo Thabane, 58, were in the middle of a bitter divorce when she was shot and killed outside her home two days before her husband's 2017 inauguration. HIRED KILLERSThabane has not yet been charged, but the police said he was involved in the plot to kill Lipolelo using hired killers and his wife Maesaiah is in custody accused of murder. The police commissioner said the couple had promised to pay the killers the equivalent of $179,485, which was to be paid in instalments. A first attempt to kill Lipolelo failed on 12 June 2017, police said.

Source: Daily Nation June 12, 2020 05:48 UTC