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Ralton Juan Christopher Koetaan, 34, pleaded guilty to killing Jean Lombaard, 67, for failing to pay him for sex in April 2019.
He told the court he hit Lombaard in the head repeatedly with a grass slasher handle until he fell to the ground.
The Gqeberha High Court sentenced Koetaan to life in prison for the murder.
A 34-year-old man, Ralton Juan Christopher Koetaan, who pleaded guilty in February to killing Gqeberha smallholder, Jean Lombaard, 67, for failing to pay for sex in April 2019, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
The sentencing comes two months after Koetaan told the Port Elizabeth High Court in February that he used a grass slasher handle to repeatedly hit Lombaard in the head until he fell.
FAMILY MURDER SAGA!
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A MOTHER and daughter were sentenced on Wednesday, 10 March to 15 and 20 years in prison, respectively, for the murder of the family electrician.
The Port Elizabeth High Court also handed Christine (58) and Chantell Russouw (38) an additional 15 years each for robbery with aggravating circumstances.
NPA spokeswoman Anelisa Ngcakani said Wayne Russouw, at the beginning of July 2018, started shopping around for someone to help murder their family electrician, Petrus Scholtz.
Scholtz apparently wanted his “tools of trade” back.
She said Wayne on the evening of 16 July fetched Ronald Swartz (27) and took him to his home.
“Wayne and Ronald had been acquaintances for six years, and when they were at the house Wayne explained his plan,” said Ngcakani.
Court hears of car chase and shootout after brazen cash heist PREMIUM By Devon Koen - 10 March 2021
Details of a high-speed car chase through the streets of Gqeberha after a brazen daylight cash-in-transit heist, which left one person dead and two injured, were spelt out in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Tuesday.
The court heard how a Fidelity Security cash vehicle was robbed at the Sasol garage in Linton Grange on May 2 2018.
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