Durban – Two men have been found guilty of the brutal murder of 56-year old Underberg timber contractor, Dan Knight, and the vicious attack on his life partner, Beth Bucher.
Tsepiso Ramonyane and Bonginkosi Nyawose showed little emotion after they were convicted by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday, chatting briefly with their relatives at the court before they were led down to the court cells.
The pair were to have been sentenced on Monday.
Judge Jerome Mnguni found that the State had proven beyond reasonable doubt that they had been involved in the savage attack on the couple.
Bucher, who had moved with her family to Durban after the attack, has been too traumatised to attend the trial since giving testimony in May.
Her daughter, Lauren Raw, said while the judgment brought little comfort to the family, they were satisfied that Knight’s killers would be behind bars.
Mnguni, with assessor Fred de Beer, found that the two men had been part of a gang that stormed the couple’s Outlook Farm on the night of October 17 last year.
Knight and Bucher had settled down to supper when they were attacked.
Evidence against the accused included a confession Nyawose had made to police upon his arrest, as well as testimony by Ramonyane’s cousin, Thabo Dlamini, to whom Ramonyane had confessed…
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