CoA Confirms Tselayarona Death Sentence

Joseph Tselayarona surrounded by prison warders PIC: TSELE TSEBETSAME
Joseph Tselayarona surrounded by prison warders PIC: TSELE TSEBETSAME

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has confirmed and upheld a decision of the High Court, that double-murder convict Joseph Tselayarona, must hang by the neck to death.

The Gaborone High Court convicted Tselayarona of Molepolole for the murder of his lover, Ngwanyanaotsile Keikanne and her three-year-old son, Miguel Keikanne in 2010.

 It is said that he murdered his girlfriend in cold blood by stabbing her with a trimmer and a screwdriver in front of her son, while she begged her not to kill her. Then he killed her son in the morning by suffocating him with a pillow.

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