Maspero pleads guilty

08 October 2015 - 02:18 By Shanaaz Eggington

Knyna youngster Kyle Maspero has followed his former girlfriend, Phoenix Racing Cloud Theron, in pleading guilty to the 2013 murder of her mother, Rosemary Theron. She is serving a 15-year sentence after admitting to helping Maspero kill her mother, a stilt-walker, in a fit of rage in Clovelly, near Fish Hoek on March 7 2013.In his plea explanation to the Cape Town High Court yesterday, Maspero said that they discussed killing Theron after a heated argument between mother and daughter about the state of the kitchen and the schooling of the youngest daughter, Shariel, 8.He admitted that they spent the hours before the murder smoking dagga and crystal methamphetamine.Maspero said he suggested it would "be more humane to strangle Theron as she would lose consciousness relatively quickly and not suffer for long".He said he got cold feet the first time they tried to carry out the plan, but then "Phoenix shot me a questioning glance, stopped and gave the deceased another hug".He placed a rope found in a pot plant around the mother's neck and held it tight. She struggled but "Phoenix held her tight" and the two walked her to the bedroom."I held onto the rope all the while, while Phoenix told me to avoid looking at the deceased's face and count off four minutes with her, which I did," the explanation reads.They buried the body in the garden of the rented cottage, reported Theron missing at Fish Hoek police station and lived there with Shariel for the next couple of months.Four months later they moved in with a friend from the Strand, Godfrey Scheepers, and asked him to help move the body. Later that year Scheepers walked into a police station and confessed.Western Cape NPA spokesman Eric Ntabazalila said Maspero's bail has been extended. The matter had been postponed to next month...

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