Gantsi farm hands sent to death row

Lobatse High Court Judge, Abednego Tafa yesterday ruled that Kgalalelo, 31, and Mpe, 27, should be hung by their necks until they died for their roles in the robbery, murder and arson attack on Reinette Vorster. The sentence came after Tafa failed to find extenuating circumstances for the pair’s crimes in a recent hearing.

The Judge also sentenced the duo to 10 years for robbery, five years for theft of motor vehicle, three years for malicious damage to property and one year for abduction. The abduction and malicious damage to property sentences will run concurrently, while the two years of the motor vehicle sentence will run concurrently with the robbery sentence. The individual sentences for the robbery and motor vehicle theft are the minimum prescribed by law.