The ritual murder that shocked and moved the authorities in Lesotho, including Prime Minister Thomas Thabane who visited the family upon the report of bad news, was believed to have been stimulated by a ritual practices of some witchdoctors, a notion motivated by the fact that the girl’s throat was cut, implying that the blood was sucked.

Following the indictment of Mr Phri, one Khotso Motseki, appeared on a local radio alleging that Hlotse police attempted to implicate him in the Mojabeng’s murder. “So why don’t they arrest me instead of torturing innocent people in my name?” he asked. He said his claim was supported by two suspects who have since been released on condition that they report again to the police whenever required. “Police tortured us in many ways forcing us to agree with their statement that Ntate Motseki paid us M35, 000 to kill the 14-year-old child. At the time of interrogation I didn’t even know who Motseki was,” said one man on local radio who claimed to have been arrested and released. However, Superintendent Mopeli dismissed the claim as irrelevant because police can investigate or call anyone who is linked in the investigations for questioning.