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Eastern Cape Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General, Liziwe Ntshinga, has welcomed the sentences imposed on four men, six years after killing an elderly woman in her home in Kabega Park in Gqeberha.
25-year-old Fikile Mengo, 34-year-old Mkhuseli Ngqanda, 33-year-old Sinethemba Nenembe, and 29-year-old Thanduxolo Vumazonke, were sentenced in the High Court on Wednesday.
Nenembe is also serving a life sentence for the highly publicised murder of high school teacher, Jayde Panayiotou in April 2015.
General Ntshinga said although it's taken six years, the family of 78-year-old Denise Webber can now find closure.
She said the four were not remorseful, as all, but one, are already serving sentences for other crimes.
Three of the four men were given life sentences for the August 2015 murder of Webber as well as additional jail time for robbery, while a fourth accused was sentenced to an effective 25 years for murder and aggravated robbery.
Police spokesperson, Colonel Priscilla Naidu, said Webber was strangled in the granny flat where she lived on the premises after the men overpowered her 37-year-old domestic worker.
She said Mengo had previously worked at Webber's place.
His grandmother brought him to the police station a week after Webber's murder, while the others were arrested days later.
