Judith Masters News Today

Three men accused of robbing and killing two Hogsback academics appeared briefly in the Cathcart magistrate’s court sitting in Stutterheim on Friday. The men, aged between 23 and 33, were arrested in a sting operation led by provincial detectives from the serious and violent crimes unit. They are accused of killing Prof Judith Masters and Dr Fabien Génin in their Hogsback home.

Judith Masters and Fabien Génin had both recently retired from the University of Fort Hare after celebrated careers researching lemurs and their kin.

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Eastern Cape police have released the names of a couple that was found dead in their Hogsback home on Monday. The bodies of Prof Judith Masters and Dr Fabien Génin were found by their domestic helper. Their hands and feet were bound with cables. Police have not released the cause of death. Masters, 66, was a retired professor of zoology at the University of Fort Hare while Génin, 50, worked as a senior lecturer at Fort Hare and as a research officer at Nelson Mandela University.

An 'internationally-acclaimed' professor and her partner - based in the Eastern Cape - were killed during a housebreaking incident.

Acclaimed retired University of Fort Hare academic Professor Judith Masters and her French partner, Fabien Génin, haven been found murdered in their Hogsback home.