Police attending to a domestic dispute at a house in Kabega Park had no idea that the bound and beaten body of Petrus Scholtz lay wrapped in cling wrap in a chest freezer just metres away.

The 70-year-old, semi-retired electrician had been brutally murdered the day before.

The self-confessed mastermind behind the murder, Wayne Russouw, 33, is behind bars for life after pleading guilty.