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Original Post Date: 2008-05-08 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
The State has asked the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) to consider life imprisonment for an Air Force sergeant who shot dead his children in 2006.
The State appealed against the light sentences imposed on Flippie Venter for the murder of his two children, Millize, 5, and Janco, 4, and the wounding of his wife in a shooting incident involving an R4 military assault rifle.
“The way the children were shot should be exceptionally aggravating,” State advocate Erik van der Merwe told the court.
The Nelspruit circuit court sentenced Venter to an effective 10 years behind bars.
He received 15 years in jail for Millize’s murder, five years suspended, and another 10 years for Janco’s murder and eight years for the attempted murder of his wife, all running together.
Van der Merwe asked the panel of three appeal judges that Venter be imprisoned for no less than 20 years.
The trial court had found that Venter, who admitted murdering his children, had shown sincere remorse for what he had done.
Van der Merwe submitted that Venter showed self-pity rather than genuine regret for what he had done.
Factors taken into account by the trial court for Venter’s sentence were the various circumstances at the time of the incident, such as being under the influence of alcohol, his state of mind and that he suffered from depression.
Venter testified that two periods of military service in Burundi had dramatically affected his life.
Four of his friends drowned during his first stay and he had not received any counselling for the tragedies.
Following his second term in Burundi, in 2004, he was charged with the rape and murder of a teenage girl and was held in custody for six months in a shipping container.
Van der Merwe acknowledged that although there were mitigating circumstances in the case, he could not see why the prescribed minimum sentence of 15 years was not given.
Loots said Venter’s suicidal inclinations were picked up well in advance during therapy and that he was not “properly helped in this aspect”.
Judgment in the case was reserved. –
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20080508055125476C921275