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A 29-year-old man is due to appear in the Bellville Magistrate\u2019s Court today after being arrested on a charge of murder after his girlfriend (37) was found dead in her bed in Greenville in Fisantekraal, outside Durbanville, on Sunday evening at 22:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Durbanville police spokesperson Capt Marchell Rhode, the suspect told police he arrived home in Leucadendron Street after load shedding and found his girlfriend with stab wounds to the side of her body and left leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was declared dead on the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, a group of about 70 residents protested outside the suspect\u2019s mother\u2019s house, where he was staying now, demanding answers about the woman\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Rhode, the police took the suspect away to the police station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith further investigation by the detective assigned to the case, and after interviewing the boyfriend, it was discovered that he and the deceased had an argument that same night and that he stabbed his girlfriend inside their house where she died,\u201d Rhode says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not yet known if the suspect has been released on bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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