{"id":147800,"date":"2020-06-11T16:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/11\/ex-lesotho-pm-paid-gang-to-murder-his-wife-police-say\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T14:01:29","slug":"ex-lesotho-pm-paid-gang-to-murder-his-wife-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=147800","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Lesotho PM paid gang to murder his wife, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Thabane and his current wife allegedly agreed to pay hitmen $179,485 to carry out killingLesotho\u2019s former prime minister Thomas Thabane paid a team of hitmen from a notorious local gang a down payment of more than $20,000 to kill his estranged wife, according to police statements.The cash was alleged to be the first instalment of a much larger sum \u2013 approximately $180,000 \u2013 that was agreed as a fee for the murder three years ago. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/ex-lesotho-pm-paid-gang-to-his-wife-police-say-thomas-thabane\" target=\"_blank\">Ex-Lesotho PM paid gang to murder his wife, police say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Thabane and his current wife allegedly agreed to pay hitmen $179,485 to carry out killingLesotho\u2019s former prime minister Thomas Thabane paid a team of hitmen from a notorious local gang a down payment of more than $20,000 to kill his estranged wife, according to police statements.The cash was alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}