Strong mitigation factors earn 'passion killer' cut in jail term

Friday, May 20, 2011

FRANCISTOWN: Judge Moses Chinhengo has reduced the sentence of a Khwee Dikgakgamatso settlement young man who killed his girlfriend by cutting her throat in 2006.

Judge Chinhengo said in the case before him, the mitigation factors of Lebonetse Gagoitsiwe warrant an adjustment downwards.

"That adjustment is not to downward the seriousness of the offence where a life of a 22-year-old young woman was senselessly taken away leaving behind another victim of the offence, her child," Judge Chinhengo said.

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Strong mitigation factors earn 'passion killer' cut in jail term

FRANCISTOWN: Judge Moses Chinhengo has reduced the sentence of a Khwee Dikgakgamatso settlement young man who killed his girlfriend by cutting her throat in 2006.