17th November 2011

Thursday night....

Spade killer hears his fate

A gardener was jailed for 18 years on Thursday for killing a Pretoria woman with a spade because her husband hired him to kill her.

The High Court in Pretoria sentenced the 35-year-old Lucas Moloi to a total of 23 years imprisonment for murder and theft, but ordered that he serves 18 years.

Air hostess Cordelia Prinsloo, 59, was murdered at her house in Kameeldrift in October 2009.

Judge Winston Msimeki said society demanded that murderers be dealt with harshly.