Outrage At 'Lenient' 20-Year Jail Term For Wife Killer

Speaking outside court on Friday after Justice Gaolapelwe Ketlogetswe had imposed the sentence, Hanifa’s sister, Trene Esop, said her family still could not believe Youngman was given a 20-year-sentence saying that the term was lenient as “it did not take into consideration that a life has been lost and can never be replaced”.

A sobbing Esop went on: “As a family we are not happy about the sentence and strongly believe that justice was not served in this case. Our sister is dead and we will never see her again. She was the breadwinner of the family. Our sister’s killer should have been hanged. The 20-year-sentence is not enough. Her killer brutally killed her leaving us to fend for her two young children she left behind”.