Man sentenced to 18 years for brutal murder
ALEXANDRA - A man was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Alexandra Magistrates Court for the brutal murder of another man in Alex mid night on 30 November 2014.
A man is appealing his 18-year sentence handed down by the Alexandra Magistrates’ Court for the brutal murder of another man in Alex at about midnight on 30 November 2014.
Sanele Dlamini was convicted for crushing Siyanda Ndlovu‘s head with concrete blocks and hitting him with a spanner at the accused’s 16th Avenue home in the presence of his girlfriend and their child.
The incident was first reported in Man awaits sentence for brutal murder, week ending 14 October 2015. Sentencing was delayed pending a probation officer’s report on the child.
At the trial last year, Dlamini claimed he had only beaten the deceased to chastise him for peeping into his room where he was with his girlfriend and their child.
Neighbours testified that they responded to someone calling for help from the accused’s room and found Dlamini beating the deceased with his fists and a spanner.
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After a struggle, the neighbours managed to pull him off the deceased who wobbled out of the room covered in blood. He was said to have collapsed outside and started snoring. The accused was said to have cleaned his clothes of the deceased’s blood. Witnesses claimed to have gone to their rooms and could hear Ndlovu snoring.
Later, the witnesses heard the accused’s door open and heard two loud bangs, assumed to be from the concrete blocks being dropped. In the morning, the deceased was found lying in a pool of blood with gaping wounds on his head and bloodstained concrete blocks lying next to him.
Police and the Emergency Management Services certified Ndlovu dead on the scene.
Dlamini was said to have disappeared after the incident and resurfaced in Joburg months later. He was arrested at his workplace in Florida Hills and was denied bail.
Before sentencing, his legal representatives changed the accused’s version of events. They said Ndlovu had entered Dlamini’s unlocked room on the night to escape from six men who were chasing him. It was claimed that the accused pushed the deceased out of his room when the men chasing Ndlovu threatened to set Dlamini’s room alight. The defence alleged that the deceased might have been assaulted and killed by his chasers.
Dlamini’s council lodged an immediate appeal against the sentence.
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