Cradock police have arrested a 42-year-old suspect believed to be involved in the brutal murder of 78-year-old Patricia Orpen in May.
Provincial police spokesperson, Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana says the suspect was arrested in Cradock early on Saturday.
Orpen's body was found by her daughter in her bedroom with multiple injuries on the 5th of May 2020, on Morgenson farm near the Karoo town.
Kinana says preliminary investigations at the time revealed that her handbag was missing from the house as well as her bakkie, which was later found partially burnt and abandoned in the Industrial area of Cradock.
He says reports suggest that the arrested suspect was employed as a gardener by the deceased prior to the incident.
The suspect is expected to appear in the Cradock Magistrate's Court on Monday on charges of murder and malicious damage to property.
