A Cape Town pastor facing multiple murder and rape charges is appealing to a higher power for mercy.
Bird allegedly went on an orgy of crime in January 2013 when his fiancée, 36-year-old An-Neisa Bardien, broke their engagement. Unable to take to rejection, he allegedly smothered her to death and concealed her remains in a shallow grave.
"[Bird] strangled the deceased by until she was unconscious . He then crushed her head by hitting her several times with a rock. [Bird] got Lucien Jansen to dig a trench and [he] buried her body there."
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