Police are piecing together information after a 23-year-old Soweto woman's body was found in her car boot.

Nomphumulelo Mogaki had been strangled.

Her family reported her missing after she left her home on Wednesday night.

Mogaki's car was later found outside her boyfriend's home where her mother found the body in the boot.

Mogaki?s mother Winnie said she believes someone was trying to send her daughter?s boyfriend a strong message.

"These jealous people were looking for the boyfriend and they took it out on my innocent child," said Winnie.