Faizel Patel, 2016-03-26
A 26-year-old man convicted of plotting to murder his father has been sentenced to 20-years behind bars.
IOL reports Jibraeel Mohideen was this week convicted of the murder of Mohamed Ashraf Tajoodeen in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
Mohideen pleaded guilty alongside one of his co-accused, hired hit man 32-year-old Zandisile Mtshali before a public gallery packed with the victim’s family and friends.
Mtshali was sentenced to 25 years.
Judge Rishi Seegobin presiding over the sentencing told Mohideen he had committed the worst sin any child could ever commit, that of taking his father’s life and found it particularly repulsive.
“You should be ashamed of yourself. For the rest of your life, you will live with the knowledge that you were instrumental in having your father killed. While your father may have treated you unfairly and harshly at times, he did not deserve to die in this manner.
Tajodeen who was the owner of Lee’s Auto Sales, was killed at his home in Scottsville in KwaZulu-Natal on the 25 of last month.
He was stabbed, beaten with a hammer and his throat was slit.
The family’s 52-year-old domestic worker Emily Mchunu and her boyfriend, Joshua Nxumalo also appeared briefly in the magistrate’s court where they were remanded in custody until the 30 April for a formal bail application.
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