Linda’s parents, Thabiso and Ntombizandile Linda, at the crime scene with the investigating officer, Constable Ridwaan Baatjies. (Candice Bezuidenhout/News24)
A grieving Gqeberha father received a double blow on Thursday when he not only heard that his missing daughter had been found dead on the beach, but also that she may have used his gun to end her life.
An emotional Thabiso Linda spent several minutes standing on the sand of popular Hobie Beach in Gqeberha, just staring at the blue depths, struggling to come to terms with the fact that the body of his daughter, Linda Linda, was found at the same spot on Monday.
Linda, a 19-year-old Eduvos student, left her home in Fairview on Monday and never returned.
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