NATIONAL NEWS - After Karabo Mokoena’s boyfriend Sandile Mantsoe, 27, was found guilty of her murder by acting judge Peet Johnson in the High Court in Johannesburg yesterday, he was handed a harsh sentence on Thursday morning.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) had asked for the maximum sentence.
He was sentenced to five years in prison on assault.
On the murder he received 30 years.
On obstruction of justice, he received four years.
His effective sentence was 32 years after some of the years were allowed to run concurrently with count two.
The judge said that he found “what you call remorse” was in fact “self-pity” and he was not remorseful. “Even in evidence today, you’ve tried to avoid responsibility. In your attempt to escape responsibility, you maligned the deceased and attacked her character.”
He said that the court could find no factors in mitigation of sentence aside from Mantsoe’s young age and his first-offender status.
Sandile Mantsoe sentenced to 32 years for murder of Karabo
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