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H0T: Court Decides Fate Of 52-Year-Old Man Who Killed His 4 Children In South Africa

Faith Ukanwa

Jun 04, 2021

A 52-year-old man, has been sentenced to a four-year-term for killing his 4 children in South Africa.

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The convict, Senyatsi Lucas Phasa who was formerly a lawyer from Ga-Phasa in Sekhukhune, brutally killed his 4 children after he accused his wife of infidelity.

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High Court, Limpopo division in Polokwane, South Africa, sentenced him on Friday, June 4, a year and four months after Phasa committed the murder.

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The children are; Katlego (9), Joyce, (7) Tshepo (5) and Adel (3).

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Phasa had in February 2020, hacked three of his children to death with an axe and hit the last-born with a rock after accusing their mother of infidelity.

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On the day of the murder, Phasa had posted a series of tirades on Facebook accusing his wife of cheating on him, infecting him with HIV and warned that she would never see their children again.

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The police were notified and the bodies of all four children were located within a three kilometre radius of the village after Phasha admitted his crime to a neighbour and pointed out the location of the bodies.

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Three of children where found with stab wounds. The youngest was found with open wounds.

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— Faith Ukanwa

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