Convicted murderer Jason Rohde to be sentenced
Jason Rohde to hear his fate in Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. File Photo: Armand Hough /African News Agency Cape Town - Former Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International CEO, Jason Rohde, convicted of murdering his wife, Susan Rohde, will hear his fate as his sentencing is expected to start at the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town on Wednesday.
He was arrested shortly after the body of Susan was found on July 24, 2016, with an electric cord wrapped around her neck, hanging from a hook behind the bathroom door of the room the couple shared at the Spier Wine Estate hotel in Stellenbosch. In November last year, Western Cape High Court Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe found Rohde guilty of murder and obstructing the ends of justice by staging her suicide.
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