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Original Post Date: 2008-10-30 Time: 16:00:10 Posted By: Jan
Lynnwood resident Kathy Odendaal was cruelly killed for little more than a tube of lip ice, argued prosecutor Petra van Basten on Wednesday when she called on the Pretoria High Court to sentence Odendaal’s two killers to life imprisonment.
During her argument before the court, Van Basten said that Odendaal’s son left the country following his mother’s murder as he could no longer stay in this country.
“It is these actions which force people to leave the country,” she said.
Van Basten said if one looked at the crime scene pictures it was clear that Odendaal’s murder was a particularly gruesome one.
“She died an extremely cruel death. It is clear that there was a terrible struggle. The victim had tried her best to fend off her attackers.”
Van Basten asked Acting Judge Chris Eksteen to show no mercy to Alfred Matlala, 24, and Tshepo Dithung, 30, as they had shown no mercy to Odendaal.
She referred to the fact that Odendaal was killed in her own home for a few meagre items, including a tube of lip ice.
“Was her life worth a tube of lip ice?” she asked.
Referring to Wilson Mapadahanya, 52, who was shot dead by Matlala in Lynnwood Road, Van Basten said “he is just another statistic”.
Mapadahanya was a gardener who was shot near the house where he worked.
She also referred to the fact that Mapadahanya’s killers walked away laughing after shooting him.
Van Basten said Matlala, who was this week convicted on 10 charges following a three-day crime rampage last October, clearly planned to continue his violent rampage.
He concentrated on one spot in Lynnwood Manor and all his targets were within 1.5km of each other.
Although there was a second man with him during all these crimes, the State could not prove that it was Dithung.
But he was present during the housebreaking of the department of trade and industry’s chief of staff, Moosa Ebrahim.
Ebrahim and his family were so rattled by the robbery that they refused to stay in the house.
Their domestic worker, whose child was shot in the back by Matlala while she was sitting on her mother’s lap, returned to Malawi.
The three-year-old child was so badly injured that she had to learn how to walk again.
During her argument, Van Basten said it must have been a terribly traumatic experience for the little girl.
Herman Alberts, arguing on behalf of the killers, admitted that the killing of Odendaal was extremely cruel and that, in terms of the law, the two should receive life sentences.
He said the only mitigating factors he could offer with regard to Matlala was that he had two part-time jobs, which indicated that he tried to earn money, and the fact that his father died when he was 14.
Alberts said Dithung’s father left his mother when he was 19 and this could have had a negative impact on his life.
The two will be sentenced today (Thursday).