Limpopo woman sentenced to 25 years for orchestrating husband's murder for insurance payouts. Hired killers testified.
Kedibone Nyathi, 47, sentenced for plotting her husband's death for insurance money. Hired killers testified against her.
A 47-year-old woman has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by the Limpopo High Court on Tuesday for orchestrating her husband’s death for severalThe wife was previously charged together with three young men that she hired to kill her husband. However,after they were sentenced, 19-year-old Remember Surprise Malepe and 18-year-old Ethen Raganya and Poopo Ventry Mabela entered into a plea and sentence agreement with the state to testify against Nyathi.
Before reaching the workplace, Nyathi stopped the car and asked her husband to remove objects that were thrown into the road. During aggravation of the sentence, senior state advocate Nkhetheni Munyai told the court how the offence was committed out of greed. The investigations revealed that Nyathi had several insurance policy payments that she was entitled to in the event of her husband’s death.The acting judge, Ngobeni, found that the plea and sentence agreement was in the interests of justice and accordingly sentenced Nyathi to 25 years of direct imprisonment on Tuesday.
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