A heavy sentence was handed down to murder accused, 27-year-old Thamsanqa Sishuba, in the Mossel Bay High Court on Tuesday.
Sishuba was arrested after the bodies of 72-year-old Tewie and 62-year-old Eurika Human were found in their home in Great Brak River in June last year. Tewie was attacked with a panga and Eurika was stabbed with a knife in the chest and neck.
Judge Robert Henney said that the Humans were elderly people who could not defend themselves. He described the attack on the Humans as particularly savage and brutal and said that the crime was committed out of pure greed.
Henney said Sishuba did not take the court into his confidence and showed no remorse for his actions.
Another suspect, Steven Lekoro fled to Lesotho after the double murder and is still at large. Henney told Sishuba that if he immediately gave his co-operation to the police, there could have been a possibility that Lekoro could have been apprehended.
Sishuba was sentenced to a total of 30 years imprisonment on two counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances and has been handed a double life sentence for murdering the Humans.
