Packham your bags and go to jail, wife killer told

The Rob Packham who sat stoically in the dock in the High Court in Cape Town could not have been more different from the picture of the man being painted during the delivery of judgment in his murder trial.

Finding Packham guilty of murdering his wife, Gill, Judge Elizabeth Steyn described him as an agitated, disinterested and cheating husband.

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