A man who killed his step-great grandmother (93) in Bellville South has been sentenced to an effective 20 years in prison by the Western Cape High Court last Wednesday, 1 May.
A man who killed his step-great grandmother in Bellville South has been sentenced to an effective 20 years in prison by the Western Cape High Court last Wednesday, 1 May.
Keagan Samuels confessed during a plea and sentencing agreement to attacking Cynthia Doubel at her home in July 2021, knowing it would kill her, as reported byThe attack started after Doubel resisted his attempts to stop her from leaving home while ‘not being dressed properly’, Samuels stated in his plea agreement.
A physical struggle ensued which angered Samuels, and he physically assaulted her. She fell on the floor, where he picked her up and carried her to her bed where he left her.Samuels forbade his younger brother from giving her water because she had some next to her bed. After he started yelling and screaming again from being ‘riled up’, hitting the cupboard, before leaving the house to visit someone in Delft.After arriving at her house, the coroner was at the premises, as well as many other people.‘The parties agreed to the sentence as Samuels displayed genuine remorse for his actions by handing himself over to the police, and that he was capable of rehabilitation,’ said the National Prosecuting Authority’s Eric Ntabazalila.
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