Granny killer tries luck at court, gets harsher sentence

05 June 2019 - 08:00 By Jeff Wicks
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The Supreme Court of Appeal has given the woman a hefty prison sentence by doubling it.
The Supreme Court of Appeal has given the woman a hefty prison sentence by doubling it.
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A Limpopo woman – handed a five-year prison term for her role in the 2014 murder of her grandmother and a five-year-old girl – has had her sentence doubled by the Supreme Court of Appeal, which handed down the damning ruling on Friday.

The judge did not buy her argument that the elderly woman had bewitched her.

 

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