The Pietermaritzburg High Court is scheduled on Friday to sentence two black men convicted of raping and killing an 86-year-old nun infor iXopo in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands. <\/p>\n
Austrian nun, Getrud Tiefenbacher’s body was found in her room, with her hands bound.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s D-day for Mondli Shozi and Sibongiseni Phungula convicted of rape, murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances.<\/p>\n
The crime against the elderly woman has shocked many, and left other nuns, mostly elderly, living in fear.<\/p>\n
The Sisters have commended police for working around the clock to arrest the two men.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Advocate Anastasiou for the defence told the Pietermaritzburg High court that the crime committed against the 86 year old nun was a serious one.<\/p>\n
However, she told the court that the crime had not been premeditated as the men were under the influence of alcohol.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, State prosecutor advocate Sandesh Sankar appealed to the court not to entertain the personal circumstances tabled by the defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Pietermaritzburg High Court is scheduled on Friday to sentence two black men convicted of raping and killing an 86-year-old nun infor iXopo in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands. Austrian nun, Getrud Tiefenbacher’s body was found in her room, with her hands bound. It\u2019s D-day for Mondli Shozi and Sibongiseni Phungula convicted of rape, murder and robbery … Continue reading “White nun’s murderers sentenced”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,8655,4219,40],"class_list":["post-18970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-kzn","tag-murder"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18971,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18970\/revisions\/18971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}