UPDATE: Family and friends looked on helplessly following the late-afternoon sentencing of the three men who caused the death of Daniël Botha (26). CrimesAgainstHumanity
Magistrate Ian Cox sentenced Gideon Fourie to 15 years' imprisonment for murder while Jacques de Lange and Sampie Hearn, who were convicted of assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm, got five years each. Photo: Ntombikayise Sibeko
De Lange and Hearn were also handed a further two years’ imprisonment, suspended for five years, on condition they are not again found guilty of any form of assault. He was followed by his two accomplices, who took a moment to remove their ties and hand these to family members. Fourie handed himself over to the police on July 31 and initially, a case of assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm was opened at the Benoni SAPS but the charge was amended to murder when Botha died of his injuries.During sentencing, Cox said the accused may be first-time offenders, as per police records, but evidence indicates they are violent.
“What kind of a man treats a woman the way that accused one treated Botha’s female friend on that fateful evening? What kind of a man punches another for no reason other than because he can? What kind of a man assaults another without provocation and kicks a defenceless man who is lying on the ground for no reason?”He further stated that accused two and three had no valid reason to involve themselves by kicking the deceased while he was on the ground, and that accused one, being a ‘big man’,...
“A parent should not bury a child. It is unnatural. No matter what the court imposes it will not bring back the deceased but will bring some closure to those that remain behind.”
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