DURBAN, (CAJ News) – KWAZULU-NATAL Police have arrested a third suspect in connection with the gruesome murder of a woman recently.

The suspect, a security guard, has been apprehended in Umzinto where he led police to bushes where he pointed out the headless body of a woman.

It is reported when questioned about the woman’s head, the suspect led police to another location in the vicinity where a plastic shopping bag containing decomposed crushed bones was recovered.

Police said the plastic bag containing what is believed to be the remains of the victim’s head and the headless body was removed to the Park Rynie State Mortuary.

Forensic tests will be performed to determine if the bones in the bag are indeed that of the deceased woman’s head.

The suspect is being held in police custody pending his first appearance in the Umzinto Magistrates Court on Monday.

The second accused, Elias Sihle Mchunu,, who was arrested for another murder, appeared in the Umzinto Magistrates’ Court on Thursday and the case was remanded until Thursday.

– CAJ News