A snooker match ended tragically when a man from Plumtree struck his mate fatally with a cue stic
A snooker match ended tragically when a man from Plumtree struck his mate fatally with a cue stick.
A murder case was brought against Mthandeni Maphosa at Plumtree Magistrates Court yesterday.
Judge Joshua Nembaware did not ask him to enter a plea in response to the charges.
Nembaware instructed him to petition for bail at the High Court and remanded him in detention until October 16.
According to the State, on September 17,So SAD NEWS:Man kills friend with snooker stick….. Maphosa and his buddy Elvis Ncube were having a disagreement while playing snooker when something went wrong.
Ncube was knocked down when Maphosa, in a fit of rage, whacked him in the head with a cure stick.
Y JAKE EGELNICK
If you’ve ever walked out the back entrance of Forest Hill station and taken a right, there’s a high chance that you’ve walked past an elite level snooker player. World Snooker and Forest Hill. An unlikely pairing but a formidable one, thanks to John Parris and his company Parris Cues.
Parris Cues can be found on a quiet residential street in SE23, next to a hand car wash and a grocer. From the outside all you can see is a name and number on a small shop front, coloured snooker cloth green. Unless you were in the know, you would have no idea that the cues used by some of snooker’s all-time greats, like Steve Davis and Ronnie O’Sullivan, were made in this shop just off the south circular.
For John Parris being inconspicuous isn’t an issue. Smiley, wise, quick to crack a joke – like your favourite grandad – he’s been making snooker cues for almost 40 years. During this time he’s perfected the craft to a level where he doesn’t have much need for marketing. He said: “We advertise in a snooker magazine more to just support the snooker magazine than anything else. We’ve got a website and that’s it. The product sells itself.”
