JOHANNESBURG, March 24 (ANA) – The Polokwane High Court has sentenced a 44-year-old woman to life in prison for shooting her husband dead during an argument, Limpopo police said on Friday.
Spokesman Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe said Carolina Catherine Visser had previously complained about her abusive husband but never reported him to the police.
“She never reported such incidents to the authorities until she shot him three times in the head, the deceased was found dead on the bed in their house on 19 February 2016 at Kampesrus outside Hoedspruit,” he said.
The court further sentenced Visser to three years for illegal possession of firearm and ammunition.
The husband, Leon Potgieter, was 52 years old.
-African News Agency (ANA)
