Ex-Soldier Gets 20 In TheSlammer For Spousal Murder

Mogomotsi Mothuti escaped the death penalty (which is the maximum sentence for murder) by a whisker when the court found that there were extenuating circumstances that led to him committing the offence.

In addition, Solomon said that she considered what the accused said in mitigation through his attorney, Kgololesego Segabo.  Mothuti’s sentence will be backdated from March 23 this year, the day he was found guilty of the murder. Mothuti brutally killed his wife and mother of his two children, Martha Mothuti when he stabbed her several times with a knife on the right side of her chest in November 2011.