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Dimbaza woman sentenced to 22 years for the murder of her two sons

King William’s Town Court on Thursday sentenced a woman to 22 years for the murder of her two sons.

Busisiwe Labi suffocated her six-year-old and one-year-old with a plastic bags last years September.

The court heard that before the murder, Labi told her older son she was going to kill him and his brother.

The child pleaded for their lives but the woman prayed and suffocated the boys with plastic bags.

She was found guilty in July.

The National Prosecuting Authority’s Anelisa Ngcakani said the State prosecutor asked that the prescribed minimum sentence of life imprisonment be handed down.

“The presiding judge agreed that indeed the offences were horrific and that the crimes were planned. The judge, however, ruled that there were compelling circumstances present in the case for the court to deviate from the prescribed minimum sentence of life imprisonment

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