Twenty-five years in jail for beer merchant murderer

Friday, November 20, 2020

FRANCISTOWN: Justice Phadi Solomon on Tuesday sentenced a man who pummelled an alcohol merchant to death with an axe handle to 25 years in jail.

The accused, Gosegonna Seditse, was convicted of the murder of Keraetswe Maranga at Toteng village in the Ngamiland District in 2016.

However, Seditse escaped the hangman’s noose after Justice Solomon found that there were exceptional extenuating circumstances that influenced him to commit the offence.

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