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“He is a cruel and cold-hearted individual who shows no remorse.” Judge Judith Cloete slapped the convicted murderer known as “the Table Mountain killer” with two life sentences in the Cape Town high court on Thursday morning for the murders of a hiker and cyclist in 2018. “The fact that he planned to attack solitary cyclists, elderly people and children shows that he is a coward,” said Cloete as 32-year-old convicted murderer Blessing Bveni stood in the dock wearing a mask. The Zim...

“He is a cruel and cold-hearted individual who shows no remorse.” Judge Judith Cloete slapped the convicted murderer known as “the Table Mountain killer” with two life sentences in the Cape Town high court on Thursday morning for the murders of a hiker and cyclist in 2018. “The fact that he planned to attack solitary cyclists, elderly people and children shows that he is a coward,” said Cloete as 32-year-old convicted murderer Blessing Bveni stood in the dock wearing a mask. The Zim...

Relief at sentence for ’Table Mountain killer’ By Shanice Naidoo Share Cape Town - ”He was ferocious. His eye narrowed, he was focused, his lips were drawn back from his teeth,” This is how Malcolm Esterhuizen described his attack in 2018 by Blessing Bveni, the man known as the Table Mountain killer. Bveni was sentenced to two life sentences plus 33 years, in the Western Cape High Court, this week, for his crimes committed between 2017 and 2018. Bveni was convicted on ch...

Judge Judith Cloete characterised Bveni as cruel and coldhearted. Blessing Bveni, who was infamously dubbed the Table Mountain Killer, received two life sentences for the murders of a cyclist and a hiker in 2018    Bveni, 33, was sentenced in the Western Cape High Court for the murders of Douglas Notten and Ian McPherson who were killed in January and March 2018, respectively, in Table Mountain National Park. He was also sentenced to an additional 33 years, to run concurrently, for the atte...

The man known as the Table Mountain Killer, Blessing Bveni has been sentenced to two life terms plus 33 years in prison. Judge Judith Cloete  said the 33-year-old had planned his attacks, stalked his victims and was a “cruel and cold-hearted person”. Bveni, from Zimbabwe, had targeted mostly hikers and cyclists in the Silvermine area above Fish Hoek from October 2017 to March 2018. The double life sentence was for the murders of Ian McPherson and Doug Notten. Bveni was sentenced to a furth...