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Two men face hangman's noose

Tunnel at the end of the light PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Tunnel at the end of the light PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

LOBATSE: Justice Michael Leburu of the Lobatse High Court has sentenced two men to death for killing the father of another co-accused for insurance money.

But the deceased’s son, who is also thought to have been the mastermind, former prisons warder Agisanyang Motukwa, got only 25 years. His belief in witchcraft saved him.

When condemning Daniel Sime and Gaolatlhe Thusang to the gallows Justice Leburu said the two were driven by greed to murder Motlhankana Motukwa of Ntlhantlhe village in the southern district.

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