The Port Elizabeth High Court handed down life sentences on Wednesday to three convicted killers involved in separate incidents dating back to 2017.
Provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Liziwe Ntshinga praised the investigating officers and the National Prosecuting Authority for ensuring that these criminals, who had no respect for human life, were permanently removed from society.
A well-known Port Elizabeth gang affiliate Neville Von Belling was sentenced to two life terms for the murder of 27-year-old Roshayn Williams in Helenvale in September 2018, and for the murder three days later of 17-year-old Xavier Jassen in the same Northern Areas suburb.
Von Belling shot both his victims to death.
In another high-profile case which concluded in the PE High Court on Wednesday, 39-year-old Mbuyiseli Pikoli and 24-year-old Vuyani Sifunda were both sentenced to three life terms for three murders committed in September 2017.
They’d earlier been convicted of bludgeoning 49-year-old Tyrone Plaatjies to death in a house robbery at the Forrest Hills cemetery caretaker’s quarters.
They struck again two days later, attacking an elderly couple in their Schoenmakerskop home during the early hours of the morning of 25 September 2017.
The 78-year-old Elaine Allwright and 76-year-old Ken Alexander were killed in the attack which sent shock-waves through the closely-knit Schoenmakerskop community.
