A drug addict, Brutus Mhlanga, offered three
men his father's car and R150, 000 of his inheritance to help him carry out the
crime. Brutus’s father was shot dead and his wife wounded in December 2017. Phindi
Mjonondwane, the National Prosecuting Authority’s said: “The motive why he hired
killers to murder his father was that his parents reprimanded him for using
nyaope. The court came to the conclusion that it was a carefully planned and
executed murder.”
His
accomplices Hloniphani Ntombela, Ntsheula Caswell and Patrick Ziqubu were also
handed life imprisonment.
The police statement said on Tuesday: “Ntsheula
was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 45 years, Ntombela to life imprisonment
plus 51 years, Ziqubu to life imprisonment plus 63 years, whilst Mhlanga was
sentenced to life imprisonment plus 51 years’’.
By:
Ellouise Muller
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