Sentencing expected for man who killed child with pick-axe-handle

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

A probation officer's report will probably be presented to the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday, in the sentencing of a man who beat to death his three-year-old son with a pick-axe handle.

Fifty four year old Vincent Mugwagwa, a mechanic, was found guilty earlier in June.

He told the court he came to the country after losing his job in Zimbabwe in 2010. He was later joined by his wife and their four children.

In June last year, his wife accused him of being unfaithful. He chased her and the children out of the house, and followed them to a neighbour's house, where he picked up a pick-axe handle and hit the child.

Mugwagwa's wife of 29 years pleaded with the court not to send him to jail because she and the children needed his financial support.