Karl Kamal Rashid was arrested when he was found living in a flat rented under the name of his wife, who was formerly in the SA Air Force.
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On Tuesday, Mthatha high court acting judge Noluthando Ndzondo, sitting in Sterkspruit, sentenced Rashid to 20 years for murder, and a total of 15 years for the three fraud counts , theInitially, he was believed to have died when his burnt-out Volvo containing the charred remains of a body was discovered in 2011 in Sterkspruit, a small town in the Eastern Cape. Rashid’s watch was strapped to the corpse's wrist.
The couple met when she went to the US for a military training course. They married in Florida, US, in 2002 and subsequently moved to her home town of Sterkspruit, where they divided their time between rented accommodation in the town and her rural home in Manxeba. She worked as a manager of a beauty parlour while there was talk in the dusty little town that the burly former soldier was considering opening a gym.
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