BREAKING: Coligny sunflower murderers sentenced to 23 and 18 years in prison
The two men convicted in the so-called Coligny sunflower murder have been sentenced to 23 years and 18 years in prison.
Hendricks found that there were sufficient circumstances for him not to impose life imprisonment on the pair. He found that the murder was not planned or premeditated and that there was no direct intention to kill Mosweu, but that the accused must have foreseen that throwing the deceased from a moving vehicle may have resulted in his death.
Friends and family members of the pair occupied the seats on the right hand side of the court room behind the EFF.Hendricks called the pairs actions on the day of the murder “disgraceful and appalling”. His death sparked violent mass protests that left six houses and three trucks torched and shops looted in Coligny as the town was divided along racial lines.Doorewaard and Schutte were found guilty of murder, kidnapping, intimidation, theft and pointing of a firearm in October, 2018.“In sentencing, the court should consider what the society needs and not what the society want,” she said.
Prosecutor Rapula Molefe, however, said the court should impose a life sentence, adding that the two did not show remorse.
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