01 December 2007
Dina Rodrigues, the woman who was found guilty of masterminding the murder of six-month-old Jordan Leigh Norton, has filed papers at the Supreme Court of Appeal for leave to appeal her conviction and sentence on Friday, according to Sapa.
In June this year the Cape High Court handed down life sentences to the 26-year-old Rodrigues and two accomplices for the contract murder of baby Jordan in her Lansdowne home.Rodrigues had hired four accomplices to murder the six-month-old infant after learning that her lover at the time, school teacher Neil Wilson, had fathered the child during an earlier relationship with Natasha Norton, the baby's mother.
High Court Judge Basheer Waglay, when delivering judgment, said that the murder in June 2005 was "calculated, callous and cold-blooded", and "cowardly and cruel in the extreme".
Rodrigues is serving her sentence at the Worcester Prison in the Western Cape.
The high court earlier rejected applications by Rodrigues and three of her accomplices to appeal their convictions.Judge Waglay, though, granted Rodrigues leave to appeal against her sentence of life imprisonment before a full bench of the Cape High Court, the report says.
Rodrigues has asked for permission that the appeal against sentence, already granted at the Cape High Court, not be heard there but rather in the SCA in Bloemfontein - along with an appeal against her conviction.
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