Luyanda Botha will only be eligible for parole after 25-years.
A pre-trial hearing against murder and rape accused Luyanda Botha, will be heard at Western Cape High court on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG - Luyanda Botha, the man convicted of killing Uyinene Mrwetyana, has been sentenced to three life sentences in the Western Cape High Court. Botha will serve one life sentence for murder, one each for two counts of sexual assault and five-years for defeating the ends of justice. “I do not have anything verbal but I have organised something in writing that will go to the family of Uyinene as well as to the rest of South Africa but I will ask my lawyer to handle that,” Botha said.
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