Justice must not leave families in the ruins

With the Court of Appeal confirming the death sentence, it closes the judicial chapter on a cold and calculated killing driven by greed over a P50,000 insurance payout. But on Friday, a far more painful truth was laid bare for all to see. The justice system often stops its work just when a family’s deepest wounds begin to bleed. Outside the courtroom, tragedy within a tragedy was a witnessed tragedy. Marks ‘Kganka’ Ofentse, the victim’s brother, desperately sought a moment to ask his cousin a simple question, “Why?”

Meanwhile, Agnes Ofentse, the killer’s mother and the victim’s aunt, sat sobbing at the entrance.