Pretoria – Chaos broke out seconds after a judge sentenced three men – who killed an elderly couple for a mere R3.50 – when one of the murderers tried to crawl alongside the bench in the dock in a desperate bid to get to the holding cells and away from flashing cameras.
This, while another man’s lawyer tried to pull his client back into the dock to speak to him about a possible appeal application and the court orderlies were trying to pull him by the arm towards the cells.
The family of the victims Katrien and Chris Jooste stood watching the scene with tears in their eyes.
Daughter Belinda Jooste and her brother André Jooste hugged each other after Judge Lettie Malopa-Setshosa sentenced Victor Simango, Solomon Selekane and Collen Malopo to two life terms each on both murder counts.
As she read out the life sentences, relatives of the accused gasped…
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