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Four seasonal workers were sentenced to life imprisonment for torturing and killing the farmer who employed them and viciously assaulting his wife during a robbery in the Western Cape winelands.
The court heard the accused, all Lesotho nationals, tortured the couple by stabbing them, pouring boiling water over them, and attempting to cut off the deceased’s wife’s fingers with a grinder.
Three seasonal farm workers extradited from Lesotho will go on trial next year, along with a fourth person, for the murder of Bonnievale farmer Jurie Wessels and the attempted murder of his wife Liezel.
The Kapteinsdrift Farm seasonal workers are accused of killing 55-year-old farmer, Tool Wessels, back in May 2019.
Three men from Lesotho have been extradited to South Africa to be charged in connection with a Western Cape farm murder.